HC Deb 06 November 1997 vol 300 c300W
Mr. Gale

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what plans she has to address the shortfall between the amount paid in housing benefit in respect of mortgage interest payments and the amount charged by building societies at variable interest rates. [14670]

Mr. Keith Bradley

We have no current plans for shadowing actual interest rates charged to individual borrowers on benefit.

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