§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for the Environment when he expects his Department to permit the Housing Corporation to settle the claim for abortive fees by Edmonds, Gooding, Miller and Appleby, architects, in respect of work on designs for housing association developments on two sites in Bloomsbury owned by the Property Services Agency which were withdrawn from sale in September 1980.
§ Sir George YoungPayment of consultants' fees on housing association projects is a matter for the associations concerned. I am at present considering the views of the local authority associations and other interested bodies, on proposed guidelines governing the payment of housing association grant to housing associations in respect of schemes which become impossible to complete. Decisions on the eligibility for grant of costs incurred in particular schemes will be made when the guidelines have been finalised.