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Disabled Facilities Grants

Commons · Question 26618 · Tabled 27 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 30 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Allison Gardner

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to end the difference between the treatment of military and civil compensation payments in means tests for disabled facilities grants.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 30 Jan 2025

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. ...