To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of mortgage accounts that were in arrears on (a) 1 April 2008, (b) 1 June 2008 and (c) 1 December 2008. (254204)

The Government do not hold these figures. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) publishes quarterly data on residential mortgage lending, covering the period from the first quarter of 2007, available at:

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