National Audit Office (Image: Wates)
The National Audit Office (NAO) is to investigate why not a single ‘starter home’ has been built, despite a government announcement in 2015 that it was planning the construction of 200,000 of them.
Between 2015-16 and 2017-18, the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) spent almost £174m on acquiring and preparing sites originally intended for building starter homes, following the announcement by former housing minister Brandon Lewis under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition.
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