To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many home owners in (a) Ribble Valley constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) England took out mortgages in the last five years. (271332)

Data on actual numbers of mortgage taken out are available from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). However they are only available for the United Kingdom as a whole.

The Council of Mortgage Lenders latest press release on this is on their website at:

http://www.cml.org.uk/cml/media/press/2218

The CML data on mortgage lending are no longer freely available from their website. For detailed time series information members of the public can request to subscribe to CML to obtain access to a restricted website.