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Oral Answers to Questions

Julian Sturdy Excerpts
Tuesday 2nd July 2019

(5 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Julian Sturdy Portrait Julian  Sturdy  (York Outer) (Con)
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T6.   My constituent Karen Harrison-Taylor’s parents are among the tens of thousands of pensioners who are stranded in their homes due to shared appreciation mortgages saddling them with debts of up to nine times their original loan. What steps are being taken to assist those who are unfairly tied up in these schemes?

John Glen Portrait The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (John Glen)
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Borrowers who believe that they have been mis-sold a shared appreciation mortgage are able to take their complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service. The Government are unable to comment on group action cases relating to this issue as we have no role in deciding whether cases may be heard in court. I note that the annual review of the Financial Ombudsman Service in 2003-04 said that in most cases it had not upheld complaints of shared appreciation mortgage mis-selling due to the information being satisfactory. That is the situation at the moment.