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Disabled Facilities Grants

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the local disabled facilities grants.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
9 Jan 2025
Answer
10 Jan 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 7 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the local disabled facilities grants.

  2. 9 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 10 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    We are giving older and disabled people more independence in their own homes through an immediate in-year uplift to the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) of £86 million in 2024/25. This increase will provide approximately 7,800 additional home adaptations. ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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