Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the effect on disabled people and their carers of the closure of the Independent Living Fund and the transfer of responsibility to local authorities.

The potential implications of closing the Independent Living Fund are set out clearly in the Equality Analysis published on 6 March 2014. As a part of this we made a commitment to monitor the actual impact of the closure of the ILF on former users of the ILF.

All local authorities have been allocated sufficient funding to ensure that existing commitments to former ILF users can be paid in full for the remainder of this year.