Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the apparent £24m misspend of Nottingham City Council was 'concerning'. Speaking to Nottinghamshire Live, the Conservative minister said it was a "worrying" situation that "has cost residents millions and millions of pounds".
However Mr Sunak, who was visiting the Very Group Distribution Centre near East Midlands Airport on Thursday, April 28, said he could not comment on whether the Government would intervene. It follows an investigation into city council and Nottingham City Homes (NCH) accounts that found another £25m worth of council housing rents could have been wrongly spent, with the suggestion the city council may have spent another £8.503m on the wrong services and NCH, the council's housing provider, said to have misspent £17.158m, a claim it denies.
This comes after the Labour-run city council 'unlawfully' spent more than £15m on the wrong services, a finding the council served a legal notice over. It subsequently avoided the step of commissioners being called in, however faces renewed questions over the latest findings.
