Speeches

Norman Lamb – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Norman Lamb on 2016-02-19.

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.

Brandon Lewis

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.