The all-party group on council housing has warned that council and social housing refurbishments should not fall victim to the raid on Whitehall to build new homes in a plan Gordon Brown announced on Monday.
Whitehall is in disarray over how the £1.57bn social housing programme the prime minister announced will be funded.
Seven Whitehall departments have disputed figures in a revised breakdown by the Treasury of amounts that each would be contributing to the policy.
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