Call for evidence outcome

Support for mortgage interest: call for evidence

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
This call for evidence has closed

Detail of outcome

We’ve used the responses to help us decide how mortgage interest payments will affect Universal Credit and to develop our support for mortgage interest policy.


Original call for evidence

Summary

This call for evidence seeks views on potential changes to support for mortgage interest with the introduction of Universal Credit.

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Call for evidence description

This call for evidence:

  • explains the government’s ideas for simplifying the help homeowners can get towards mortgage interest
  • asks how help with mortgage interest should be changed, taking into account fairness to taxpayers

We’ll consider the responses to this call for evidence before developing detailed policy proposals.

Documents

Support for Mortgage Interest: call for evidence

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Support for Mortgage Interest call for evidence: impact assessment

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Updates to this page

Published 6 December 2011
Last updated 3 October 2013 + show all updates
  1. Final outcome added to the page.

  2. First published.

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