An early spending review would reveal whether the Government will continue with its affordable homes funding model and would confirm how much capital grant would be available for housing organisations from 2015.
Government plans to bring forward its spending review from 2014 by a year have been reported frequently. This has now been made more certain following a slip up by Danny Alexander on the BBC and a rogue slide at a Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) conference, which both indicated an earlier 2013 spending review.
The next spending review will outline the Government's spending plans after 2015. It was widely anticipated to be in 2014 but Paul Abey, head of strategy, programme and performance for the south west at the HCA unveiled a slide at a conference yesterday saying the review had been brought forward to 2013, according to Inside Housing.
"This is actually the wrong slide, the spending review hasn’t been brought forward to 2013, it may be" Paul Abey said. "It has not been officially confirmed, a lot of people think it will be."
Chancellor George Osborne said in his Budget statement last month that further savings of £10 billion would have to be made by 2016 to prevent cuts to other departmental budgets.
