{"id":33424,"date":"2013-10-31T10:05:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T10:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c7317e9f00c582bd82fc7298386dbc5e"},"modified":"2013-10-31T10:05:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T10:05:05","slug":"government-response-response-to-select-committee-report-on-the-new-homes-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=33424","title":{"rendered":"Government response: Response to Select Committee report on the New Homes Bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Permanent Secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government Sir Bob Kerslake said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am disappointed by today\u2019s report and have some significant disagreements with its findings. We have made very clear that our review of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/policies\/increasing-the-number-of-available-homes\/supporting-pages\/new-homes-bonus\">New Homes Bonus<\/a> is underway and the groundwork will be completed by Easter 2014 as we have always promised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The whole point of the New Homes Bonus &#8211; which the committee fails to recognise &#8211; is to recognise housing growth where it occurs, with money going where those homes are needed most. That\u2019s why we\u2019ve committed \u00a31.2 billion over 5 years towards this scheme, which the National Audit Office itself found has the potential to deliver up to 100,000 additional homes over 10 years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Bob Kerslake responds to the Select Committee report on the New Homes Bonus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}