NewBuy Guarantee Scheme: UK Government Housing Liability and Expenditure Statistics

UK government data on the NewBuy Guarantee Scheme, detailing the extent of the government's contingent liability, expenditure against claims, and the number of completed transactions. The dataset is produced by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and is designated as Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics. It was last updated on 2026-07-08.

Use Cases

• Modeling government financial risk based on contingent liability data.
• Analyzing scheme uptake and impact based on transaction counts.
• Tracking public expenditure against claims made under the guarantee scheme.

Strengths

• Produced by the authoritative UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
• Last updated on 2026-07-08, indicating recent maintenance.
• Released under the OGL-UK-3.0 license, permitting reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and institutional bias inherent to the UK government source.

Provenance

Source

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Collection Method

Likely administrative data collected from the scheme's operation.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:03.896388

Geography

United Kingdom