The goverment has denied that home information packs (HIPs) may be consigned to the dustbin after housing minister Yvette Cooper dropped the compulsory inclusion of its core function, the home condition report (HCR). Linden chief executive Philip Davies labelled the whole HIP project a “fiasco”which should be thrown on the “scrapheap.”Tory shadow housing minister Michael Gove said: “The government should …