The Home Office has refused to commit to signing up to a key agreement governing London boroughs’ procurement of temporary accommodation, The MJ can reveal.
Since 2011 London leaders have followed the inter-borough temporary accommodation agreement (IBTAA), which includes a commitment for councils not to outbid each other by paying a higher rent than the host borough would pay.
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