Did Michael Gove go 'rogue' with social housing spending promise during Manchester speech?
‘Rogue’ spending commitments made by Michael Gove to sort out poor social housing may have led the Treasury to insist on sign-off for big projects, Labour has suggested.
The shadow communities secretary referred to a report in the Financial Times, which stated the department has been ‘banned from making spending decisions on new capital projects without specific permission from the Treasury, after concerns were raised about the ministry’s ability to deliver value for money’.
“I understand the Secretary of State is in Rochdale today. How can he possibly tell housing associations to sort themselves out if he can’t sort out his own department? “It is absolutely the case that processes change and they also may apply at times in different ways,” he told the Commons.
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