The Government’s affordable homes programme will be hit by a Government promise to fund the £400m cost of removing cladding and insulation from tower blocks, The MJ can reveal.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said the money will only be repaid to the affordable homes programme during 2021/22.
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