Question follow-through · 36822
Disabled Facilities Grants
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of (a) increasing the maximum mandatory disabled facilities grant and (b) reviewing means test arrangements for that grant.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 19 Mar 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of (a) increasing the maximum mandatory disabled facilities grant and (b) reviewing means test arrangements for that grant.
12 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Mar 2025
Answer published
In England, we continue to fund the locally administered Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) which helps eligible older and disabled people on low incomes to adapt their homes. We are providing an immediate in-year uplift of £86 million in 2024/25. This is on...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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12 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the impact of social media addiction on (a) (i) adult and (ii) children's mental health and (b) the cost of mental health provision in the NHS.
Cheltenham Hospital: Cancer
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Pharmacy: Finance
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