{"id":15151,"date":"2017-03-17T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=15151"},"modified":"2017-03-17T16:53:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T16:53:23","slug":"mps-seek-to-cut-3-5bn-bill-for-houses-of-parliament-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=15151","title":{"rendered":"MPs seek to cut \u00a33.5bn bill for Houses of Parliament repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/parliament-e1486143334510.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7316\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/parliament-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Houses of Parliament courtesy of UK Gov\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The Treasury select committee has queried the cost of building work and is investigating if a temporary shutdown can be avoided.<\/h3>\n<p><em>Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><u><\/u>Cheaper alternatives for the renovation of the Houses of Parliament are to be sought by MPs to keep costs below the estimated \u00a33.5bn bill.<\/p>\n<p>The premises used by parliament are in urgent need of extensive restoration and repairs to avoid the risk of being burned down or encountering other catastrophic failure. The Conservative\u00a0MP Andrew Tyrie, who chairs the Treasury committee, described the project as \u2018one of the largest major restorations in the history of the public sector\u2019 but questioned the value for money.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/mar\/17\/houses-of-parliament-repair-bill\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Treasury select committee has queried the cost of building work and is investigating if a temporary shutdown can be avoided. Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15154,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151\/revisions\/15154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}