CLG Slammed Over Failure to Monitor Housebuilding

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.