To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) of 11 November 2009, Official Report, columns 525-6W, on housing, how many first-time buyers there were in (a) Norwich North constituency and (b) each region in each year since 1997. (301758)

Information on numbers of mortgages to first time buyers is collected and published at the UK level by the Council of Mortgage Lenders.