MP, Labour’s Shadow Housing
Secretary, commenting on the National Audit
Office investigation into the Conservatives’ ‘starter homes’
programme, said:
“The Conservatives’ flagship housing announcement for
first-time buyers has been a total
failure. It’s clear you can’t trust the Tories
to do what they promise.
“Conservative Ministers pledged in 2015 to build 200,000
cut-price homes for first-time buyers, but the National Audit
Office confirms they haven’t built a single one, despite wasting
four years and spending millions of pounds.
“After nearly 10 years of Conservative failure on housing,
the country needs a Labour Government to fix the housing
crisis.”
Ends
Notes to Editors
· The
National Audit Office report ‘Investigation into Starter Homes’
is published today (Tuesday).
· The
report finds:
o The
Conservatives promising to build 200,000 Starter Homes in 2015,
but no Starter Homes have been built to date
o Despite this,
almost £174 million has been spent on the starter homes
programme
· Page
52 of the Conservatives 2015 manifesto promised “We will build
200,000 Starter Homes”: https://www.conservatives.com/manifesto2015.
· Labour
highlighted the failure of the programme in 2018: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/02/250m-spent-but-no-starter-homes-built-under-flagship-fund.
· There
are almost 900,000 fewer home-owning households under the age of
45 than in 2010: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2017-to-2018-headline-report
