Govt slammed over handling of HIPs

The Communities and Local Government Select Committee says ministers failed to justify their reasons for delaying the introduction of HIPs and argues decisions were taken for purely political reasons. In a report published today, the committee says the decisions to delay HIPs “were taken on political, rather than economic grounds, owing more to a failure of nerve in the face of vocal opposition from the press and others, than to general conditions prevailing in the housing market itself.” The Government was also criticised for failing to win over stakeholders, after the Royal Institute of...