MPs are demanding an urgent explanation from ministers
after being told that £817m allocated for desperately needed affordable housing
and other projects in cash-strapped local authorities has been returned to the
Treasury unspent. The surrender of the unused cash has astonished members of
the cross-party housing, communities and local government select committee at a
time when Theresa May has insisted housebuilding is a top priority and when many
local authorities are becoming mired in ever deeper financial crises. The
committee, which discovered the underspend for 2017-18, will interrogate
housing minister Dominic Raab and homelessness minister Heather Wheeler on the
issue, before the spring statement by the chancellor, Philip Hammond. Read more
on the Observer website.
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