Michael Gove gives £1.9bn of housing cash back to Treasury as ‘nothing to spend it on’

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Michael Gove has handed £1.9bn of funding back to the Treasury after reportedly struggling to find projects to spend it on.

The funds, budgeted for 2022-23 including £255m for new affordable housing and £245m for improving building safety, were meant to be spent by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) to tackle England’s housing crisis.