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    Tories tried to cover up failings of self-build revolution

    Senior ministers ordered to release figures that show key housing policy isn't working

    Senior Conservative ministers have been rebuked for attempting to cover up Government

    statistics showing one of their key housing policies is not working.

    While serving in opposition, the shadow Housing minister, Grant Shapps, promised Tory

    backing for people who built their own homes to kick-start a house building "revolution" in the UK.

    Two years later in Government, he launched an action plan to double the number of self-build


    homes within a decade.

    But when Labour attempted to find out how the Government was getting on with its pledge

    , senior officials in the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) attempted

    to prevent the release of statistics showing how many self-build homes had been started.

    Bizarrely, they tried to claim that they could not provide the information because to do so would

    "prejudice the effective conduct of public affairs"

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