Mortgage Interest

Philip Hollobone Excerpts
Tuesday 19th June 2018

(6 years, 6 months ago)

Westminster Hall
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On resuming
Philip Hollobone Portrait Mr Philip Hollobone (in the Chair)
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The sitting was suspended for 11 minutes, so the debate can last until 4.41 pm. I call the Minister.

Kit Malthouse Portrait Kit Malthouse
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Thank you, Mr Hollobone. I was going through a number of the issues that the hon. Member for Lanark and Hamilton East raised about support for mortgage interest, and I had reached the involvement of Serco, about which she raised concerns. Let me be clear: Serco does not administer the loan scheme. Serco was contracted merely to provide some of the initial information about the scheme—the initial correspondence, the follow-up phone calls to give people information about it, and the booklet to inform people how it works.