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In a Facebook post seen by the BBC, Coventry City Council’s cabinet member for finance Richard Brown said the government had told the authority of its decision to use a hotel in the city as “contingency asylum accommodation”.

That included then-prime minister Boris Johnson, with then cabinet member Penny Mordaunt telling the inquiry that two years of messages with him had disappeared.

Peter Martin, Buckinghamshire Council’s Deputy Cabinet Member for HS2, said: "Whilst the council wishes to protect species such as Bechstein's bats, one of the country’s rarest species, it was never supportive of what seemed like extremely excessive costs for a single structure."

Blackpool Council’s cabinet member for economy and the built environment, Mark Smith, is clear that while the money generated from RTB sales is used to support various investments in housing, the RTB receipts his council receives are "not sufficient to replace lost social rent housing".

Buckinghamshire Council’s Peter Martin, who is deputy cabinet member for HS2, previously expressed "extreme disappointment" about the structure.