To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many first time buyers have been assisted by the Help to Buy scheme in (a) Lancashire and (b) the UK.
Answered on
12 February 2015
This Government is committed to supporting people's aspirations to own their own home.
By 31 December 2014, over 58,000 first time buyers in the UK had bought a home with the support of the Help to Buy schemes.
In Lancashire, 2,089 families had bought a home using the support of the three Help to Buy schemes by 31 December 2014. The Government does not collate statistics on the number of first-time buyers for all Help to Buy schemes at a local authority level.
The Department’s official statistics on sales for the respective Help to Buy schemes are available at:
Help to Buy: Equity Loan (broken down by constituency, local authority (including first-time buyer), and postcode), to 31 December 2014: www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-monthly-statistics
Help to Buy: Mortgage Guarantee (broken down by constituency, local authority and postcode), to 30 September 2014: www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-mortgage-guarantee-scheme-quarterly-statistics-october-2013-to-september-2014
Help to Buy: New Buy (broken down by local authority), to 31 December 2014: www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-and-help-to-buy-newbuy-statistics-april-2013-to-december-2014 Figures are not available by constituency.