Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Marcus Jones Excerpts
Tuesday 16th November 2010

(14 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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David Tredinnick, not here.

Marcus Jones Portrait Mr Marcus Jones (Nuneaton) (Con)
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What steps can the Chancellor take to ensure that the Financial Services Authority’s mortgage market review proposals do not have a disproportionate effect on home buyers and the housing market, particularly at a time when we are trying to encourage growth through the private sector?

Mark Hoban Portrait The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr Mark Hoban)
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My hon. Friend makes an important point and the FSA’s mortgage market review is seeking to learn some of the lessons from how the mortgage market was regulated before the financial crisis and some of the problems that that regulation created. What I think is important is that the FSA should consider very carefully the impact on home ownership and particularly on those people who are looking to move shortly.