Thursday, 24 May 2012

HCA cuts £230m and freezes new spending

26 May 2010 | By Tom Lloyd

The Homes and Communities Agency has cut £230 million from existing programmes and frozen spending on key schemes including Kickstart and the national affordable housing programme.

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