MPs have slammed the CLG for failing to monitor the new
homes being built on public land that it had released for development. The
Public Accounts Committee questioned CLG permanent secretary Melanie Dawes on
the findings of a National Audit Office (NAO) report, which committee member
Stewart Jackson described as ‘one of the most damning reports that we have had
before us in the last five years’. Outlining the ‘pretty extraordinary’
findings, chair Meg Hillier said: ‘As a department, you did not know whether
land was being sold at the right price, how many homes should have been built
and how many homes have been built, and we will not know for some time –
perhaps before the end of the decade – whether the target has been met.’ Read
more on the Local Government Chronicle website.
