Mike Penning: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what his most recent estimate is of the average outstanding balance on mortgages for homes in (a) the UK, (b) Hertfordshire and (c) Dacorum; and what the typical month’s interest payable on each of those balances was at the latest date for which figures are available. [135327] Ed Balls: The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) publishes data on mortgage debt and the number of mortgages in the UK on their website at
http://www.cml.org.uk/cml/statistics
It does not routinely publish data at the county or district levels.
Data on the average level of mortgage interest payments by Government Office Region are available from the ONS Expenditure and Food Survey, Table 2.11.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_social/Family_Spending_2005-06/table2-11.xls
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