Michael Gove has committed to making funding available to ensure that housing association homes sold under a new Right to Buy scheme are replaced with new supply on a one-for-one basis.

Speaking in advance of the full announcement of plans for a revamp of the former 2015 Conservative manifesto policy, which was later dropped after a pilot in the West Midlands met with mixed success, the housing secretary said the relaunch would see the plan rolled out nationwide, without impacting on the amount of social housing stock.

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