Disabled Facilities Grants
(asked on 19th February 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) budget and (b) total spend was on the disabled facilities grants scheme in each year from 2009-10 to 2014-15.
Information on the annual budgets provided by the Government for the Disabled Facilities Grant and additional funding by local authorities, which adds up to the total spend for the Grant, is given in the table below.
| 2009-10 (£m) | 2010-11 (£m) | 2011-12 (£m) | 2012-13 (£m) | 2013-14 (£m) | 2014-15 (£m) |
Government Funding | 157 | 169 | 200 | 220 | 180 | 185 |
Local Authority contribution | 139 | 137 | 98 | 60 | 88 | 84 |
Total | 296 | 306 | 298 | 280 | 268 | 269 |
Data on local authority contributions 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 centrally.