Mortgage Arrears

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To ask the Attorney-General if he will give by year the number of court actions for mortgage arrears or repossessions, by petty sessions division, since 1987.

Mortgage possession actions are a civil matter and as such come within the jurisdiction of the Chancery Division of the High Court and the county courts in England and Wales which are divided into six circuits.The number of mortgage possession actions issued in the county courts since 1987 were:

	1987	1988	1989	1990
Midland and Oxford	18,123	13,965	17,075	28,651
North Eastern	11,248	10,866	10,656	13,331
Northern	12,276	11,547	10,771	13,818
South Eastern (London)	5,487	5,673	9,849	19,963
South Eastern (Provinces)	17,854	17,080	26,135	42,684
Wales and Chester	6,443	6,080	6,189	9,477
Western	7,749	7,444	10,743	17,554
Total	79,180	72,655	91,418	145,478

The number of writs for mortgage possession issued in the Chancery Division of the High Court since 1987 were:

1987	1988	1989	1990
1,203	1,206	1,981	2,818

To ask the Attorney-General if he will give by year the number of court actions for mortgage arrears or repossessions in the Mansfield court area since 1987.

The number of mortgage possession actions issued in Mansfield county court since 1987 were:

	Number
1987	518
1988	411
1989	445
1990	664

Volume 186: debated on Monday 25 February 1991