To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer with reference to the Prime Minister’s statement of 3 December 2008, Official Report, columns 34-5, how many mortgage-holders have outstanding mortgage balances of (a) less than £200,000, (b) between £200,000 and £299,000, (c) between £300,000 and £399,000 and (d) £400,000 or above in (i) the UK, (ii) each English region and (iii) each of the smallest sub-regions for which figures are available. (241559)

The information requested is not available in the format requested. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) or the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) both publish data on the mortgage market, available at:

http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pages/Doing/Regulated/Returns/IRR/statistics/index.shtml

and

http://www.cml.org.uk/cml/statistics.