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Shapps to scrap Tenant Services Authority

18/06/2010 | By Stuart Macdonald

Responsibility for regulating the financial governance of social landlords will be passed to the Homes and Communities Agency, under plans to ‘delete’ the current watchdog the Tenant Services Authority.

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