The Audit Commission has hit back at a report by Hull North MP Kevin McNamara criticising the commission's inspection of the city's troubled council in March last year.
Launching his report on Tuesday, McNamara claimed that the inspection was a politically motivated attack on deputy prime minister John Prescott, who is MP for Hull East.

George McNamara, the MP's assistant, said the commission had failed to recognise that the city's housing revenue account deficit was improving.

But the Audit Commission stood by its "fair and balanced" inspection, and an ODPM spokeswoman agreed that the report was "unbiased".

The commission's controller, Sir Andrew Foster, said: "We found financial failings, poor decision-making and patchy services. We stand by those findings."

The council distanced itself from McNamara's report: "We feel we have made progress."

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Housing Today