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Support for Mortgage Interest

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 83704, tabled on 9 November 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish the number of recipients of Support for Mortgage Interest in each of the last 10 years.

Answered on

15 November 2022

The table below shows the number of households who had a Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) loan in payment for the past four years from April 2018, the point at which SMI became a loan, to March 2022.

Number of households with an SMI loan in payment by year

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

2021/22

18,400

18,000

16,400

15,500

Note: the year runs from 1st April to 31st March. These figures include all cases in payment in Great Britain and are rounded to the nearest hundred

Note that quarterly experimental statistics are published which include the number of households in receipt of a Support for Mortgage Interest loan payment per quarter. The publication can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/support-for-mortgage-interest-statistics.

The number of households receiving SMI, prior to it becoming a loan, has been published and can be viewed in table 3c, row 20 of the ‘Benefit expenditure and caseload tables’ publication. The publication can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2022. Note that this does not include Universal Credit households in receipt of SMI.

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