Housing: Disability
(asked on 21st January 2015) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homes were adapted for disabled tenants using the Disabled Facilities Grant in each year from 2009-10 to 2013-14.
The Department for Communities and Local Government does not collect data on the number of homes adapted through the disabled facilities grant. The Department does collect data on the number of grants completed annually in England. Information on the number of grants completed and the average cost per grant for the years 2009/10 to 2013/14 is provided below.
2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | |
No. of grants completed | 44,102 | 45,383 | 43,986 | 36,874 | 42,586 |
Average Cost per grant | £3,356 | £3,724 | £4,547 | £5,966 | £4,227 |
The above data is provided by local housing authorities in their annual LOGASnet returns. LOGASnet is the Department of Communities and Local Government's web-based data capture and payments system. The data is not audited by DCLG.
Between 2011-12 to 2015-16 the Government will have invested just over one billion pounds into the Disabled Facilities Grant.
Baseline | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 |
£169m | £180m | £180m | £180m | £185m | £220m |
£20m* | £40m* |
*additional funding provided in-year by the Department of Health.