Budget 2023: Missing MMC Taskforce £10m should be 'repurposed', argues trade body

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Nearly two years ago, the MMC sector got excited by plans unveiled by then chancellor Rishi Sunak in his spring Budget.

An eye-catching £10m would be spent on an MMC Taskforce to “fast-track” the uptake of modular homes, Sunak’s Budget papers said.

As we know, that plan has gone precisely nowhere.

But the sector has not forgotten.

And it is hoping the £10m might still be down the back of a sofa somewhere in Whitehall.