Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 19 December 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many homes have been repossessed in each of the last three years.
According to information published by the Council of Mortgage Lenders, the following numbers of homes have been repossessed in the United Kingdom in the last three years:
Mortgages taken into possession, UK | |
Number | |
2010 | 38,500 |
2011 | 37,300 |
2012 | 33,900 |
Source: Council of Mortgage Lenders, Table APS |
Council of Mortgage Lenders arrears and possessions figures are for the United Kingdom as a whole. No breakdown of data is available for individual countries within the United Kingdom.
The Ministry of Justice's mortgage and landlord possession statistics can be found at
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mortgage-and-landlord-possession-statistics
This includes quarterly National Statistics on possession claim actions in county courts by mortgage lenders for England and Wales.
The Northern Ireland Court Service collects similar statistics.
According to the Council of Mortgage Lenders, the number of repossessions is at its lowest annual figure since 2007.
Moreover, Bank of England statistics published on
The action that this Government has taken to tackle the deficit left by the last Administration has kept interest rates down and helped reduce the number of repossessions.
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