MHCLG Housing Target Currently Unachievable

The government does not yet have “all the ingredients” it needs to hit its target of 300,000 new homes by 2025, according to a leading civil servant. Permanent secretary at the MHCLG Melanie Dawes has told MPs that the target is “very challenging”. Announcements in the Spending Review were key to working out how far the department could go to achieving its target, she added. Dawes told the Public Accounts Committee: “We have got a pretty comprehensive strategy but wouldn’t say at this stage that we have all the ingredients we need to get the 300,000 on the table. In particular, we don’t have information yet on our capital budgets beyond this Spending Review period.” Read more on the Public Finance website.

https://www.publicfinance.co.uk/news/2019/04/top-civil-servant-admits-government-housing-target-unachievable1