Maintenance and Improvement Grants

HC Deb 27 October 1983 vol 47 cc191-2W

Mr. McCrindle

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what changes he proposes to make in the procedures governing house maintenance and improvement grants.

Sir George Young

So far as grant arrangements for 1984–85 are concerned, I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for St. Ives (Mr. Harris) on 24 October 1983—[Vol. 47, c.10–11.]—which set out the terms of a recent announcement to the local authority associations.

More generally, we are reviewing the working of the home improvement grant scheme as a whole in the light of the conclusions of a joint working party of departmental officials and representatives of the local authority associations. We shall announce our conclusions in due course.