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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to encourage local authorities to reclaim and re-use disability adaptations and equipment that are no longer required by clients.

The Department for Communities and Local Government funds “Foundations” to act as the national body for home improvement agencies. Part of the national body’s role involves working with local home improvement agencies, including those provided by local authorities, to improve the provision of adaptations and encouraging best practice such as recycling and reusing adaptations and equipment where possible.