Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March 2017 to Question 69298, what steps his Department is taking to oblige upper tier authorities to pass in full Disabled Facilities Grants to local housing authorities where the upper tier authority refuses to so.

My Department has included a condition in the 2017-18 Disabled Facilities Grant Determination letter which stipulates that in two-tier areas, upper tier authorities must pass funding for adaptations down to their lower tier authorities promptly, and in full, unless the lower tier authorities have expressly agreed that a portion of the funding can be used for wider social care capital projects.