Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of first time buyers that have used the existing Help to Buy scheme in (a) England and (b) Stockport.
From the start of the scheme on 1 April 2013 to 30 September 2020, there were (a) 240,083 first-time buyers in England and (b) 709 first-time buyers in Stockport.
Statistics for Help to Buy: Equity Loan to 30 September 2020 can be seen here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-data-to-30-september-2020