Thursday, June 10, 2010

CLG budget cuts

The government has specified some of the spending cuts for the Communities and Local Government department.
  • £100 million will be cut from the national affordable housing programme.
  • £50 million cut from the kickstart scheme to get stalled developments off the ground.
  • £140 million cut from the running costs of the CLG and its quangos – the Homes and Communities Agency and the Tenant Services Authority – and ‘lower priority programmes’.
  • £186 million by getting rid of regional development agencies.
  • £30 million from the Gypsy and Traveller site grants.
Read more on this at Inside Housing

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