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Mr. Wigley
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what steps the Government propose to take to make more local authority mortgages available
saving would be about £900 million if mortgage interest payments were not allowed against tax but were reduced by 17.5 per cent. and the reduction refunded to the mortgages. This calculation takes no account of any consequential effects on option mortgages.