John Healey has demanded a public apology after the new government claimed to have found a financial ‘black hole’ in Labour’s social housing plans. The shadow housing minister has written to the chief secretary to the Treasury, David Laws, saying he is ‘appalled’ by information Mr Laws gave to Parliament. Mr Laws told Parliament ‘we have already found a very big black hole in the funding of the social housing programme’. He also claimed ‘we are putting more money than the previous government did into social housing’. In his letter, Mr Healey says the Labour government’s £1.5 billion housing pledge was ‘arranged, agreed and authorised with the Treasury’. He adds: ‘If this money is not now available to build new affordable housing it is because you and the chancellor have pulled the plug on the arrangements and agreements in place.’ Read the full story on the Inside Housing website.
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