Two secret reports examining the alleged mismanagement of Oxford City Council's homelessness service are to be disclosed to councillors.

The details will not be revealed to the public, but council leader Corinna Redman accepted it was likely the reports would be leaked to the media.

Councillors could vote to make the findings public after the local elections on Thursday.

An inquiry into the homelessness service was ordered after councillors raised concerns about huge sums paid to a small number of landlords. But two reports compiled on the way the service was being run were not even revealed to councillors because officers who had taken part in the inquiry were promised the investigation would remain confidential.

At last night's full council meeting, however, councillors voted by 17 votes to 14 that they should be allowed to see the reports, minus the names of officers quizzed as part of the probe.

The leader of the council's Labour group, Alex Hollingsworth, said: "We need to make decisions on the future of the homelessness service and we need the facts in front of us. We need to know the basis for recommendations that have been made. "The administration is supposed to believe in open government but it doesn't look that way at the moment."

Independent councillor Sarah Margetts, a former housing committee chairman, told councillors in a written statement that £2m of a £3m budget for temporary housing had been allocated to a single lettings agency without a proper tendering process in the last financial year.

She stormed out of the meeting when legal adviser David Taylor ruled that she was not entitled to read out her question to Cllr Redman.

Green councillor Jacob Sanders was finally allowed to read out Cllr Margetts' question focusing on the secret reports, and it prompted a heated debate.