The government has been lambasted by the chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of MPs after it emerged that despite promising five years ago to spend £2bn building 60,000 starter homes no such housing has actually been delivered.

A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) said that plans to create 200,000 starter homes for first-time buyers had come to nothing, and that the £2.3bn – including a £1.2bn brownfield fund – proposed in the November 2015 Spending Review to deliver 60,000 such homes instead ended up being spent on other residential programmes, including affordable housing.

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