Official Statistics

Support for Mortgage Interest statistics: May 2018 to May 2021

Official experimental statistics on the numbers in receipt of Support for Mortgage Interest loans.

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

Documents

Support for Mortgage Interest statistics: May 2018 to May 2021 (on Stat-Xplore)

Details

Data for households in receipt of Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) loans is available in Stat-Xplore on a quarterly basis.

These quarterly experimental statistics include number of households who are currently in receipt of the support as well as the number who have received SMI loans so far. See the background information and methodology note for an explanation of households.

The statistics are broken down by:

  • Quarter
  • Country, Region
  • Qualifying Benefit

Changes from this release

Users are advised of the following changes from this release:

  • a change to improve the methodology has resulted in revisions to the SMI loans in payment and SMI loan cumulative caseload statistics (See the background information and methodology note for more information)
  • geography information may not be up to date for some households – this affects the geography statistics from April 2020

Background information

Read the background information and methodology note for guidance on these statistics, such as timeliness and interpretation.

Interactive statistics

Find further breakdowns of these statistics on Stat-Xplore, an online tool for exploring some of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP’s) main statistics.

Feedback

We welcome all feedback on the content, relevance, accessibility and timing of these statistics to help us in producing statistics that meet user needs. For non-media enquiries on these statistics email: [email protected]

For media enquiries please contact the DWP press office.

Next releases

Support for Mortgage Interest statistics are published quarterly. The dates for future releases are listed in the statistics release calendar.

Pre-release access

In addition to staff who are responsible for the production and quality assurance of the statistics, up to 24-hour pre-release access is provided to ministers and other officials. We publish the job titles and organisations of the people who have been granted up to 24-hour pre-release access to the latest Support for Mortgage Interest statistics.

Updates to this page

Published 28 September 2021

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