Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 1 November 2017 to Question 109733, on social rented housing: disability, how many adaptations were completed in each year since 2012-13.

The majority of local authorities provide annual data returns to the Department on how they use the Disabled Facilities Grant to provide adaptations to the homes of older and disabled people. While the data provides the best estimate currently available of the number of adaptations installed, the Government is aware that there are some limitations, for example, due to the local authority response rate not being 100 per cent and some differing interpretations of questions used to collect the data.

The Government does not currently produce data on the Disabled Facilities Grant. However, the Department provides local authority returns to Foundations, the Government-funded national body for home improvement agencies. Foundations analyses the data to understand Disabled Facilities Grant delivery nationally.

From records provided by Foundations, the data shows that the following numbers of adaptations, funded through the Disabled Facilities Grant, were delivered from 2012-13 to 2016-17:

*estimate on the basis of local authority returns received to date.

As in excess of 40,000 adaptations have been funded each year by the Disabled Facilities Grant, we anticipate the total number of adaptations to be around 250,000 by the end of the 2017-18 financial year.