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Labour climb-down on Home Information Packs |
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Friday, 21 July 2006 |
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Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning, Michael Gove, has called on the Government to abandon its ill-fated Home Information Pack scheme, after ministers decided to postpone a key element of the controversial plan.
When Housing Minister Yvette Cooper announced that the Home Condition Report element would not be introduced as planned next June - and delayed until some future undefined date - Mr Gove declared: "The Government should abandon the whole scheme and consult afresh, rather than move ahead with a vanity project to save ministers' faces."
Commenting on the Government's humiliating climb-down, Mr Gove said: "The Government's ongoing plans for Home Information Packs are now a complete shambles. After the U-turn on police mergers and the delay over Identity Cards, this is the third Whitehall farce in a week."
Mr Gove said the Blair administration was slowly discovering that the HIPs project amounted to "expensive and deficient red tape" left over from the shambolic John Prescott regime, and had also realised that it would "simply not deliver the improvements that the housing market needs".
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