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Ruling could land public with £53bn debt

13/11/2009 | By Isabel Hardman

Housing associations could see their £53.1 billion debt added to the public balance sheet, after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal against a ruling that the organisations are public bodies for some purposes.

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