Written Question·Treasury·UIN 35445

Mortgages: Interest Rates

Tabled: 4 March 2025
Answered: 11 March 2025

Question

Blake Stephenson

Conservative — Mid Bedfordshire

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2025 to Written Question 26880 on Mortgages, whether her Department makes an assessment of the potential impact of fiscal policies on mortgage rates as part of their decision mak

Answer

Emma Reynolds
The government considers the potential impact of fiscal policy on a range of factors, including the potential impact on interest rates. The pricing and availability of mortgages is ultimately a commercial decision for lenders, in which the government does...
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