| Heading: |
Disabled Facilities Grants |
| Question ID: |
1759015 |
| UIN: |
26618 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-27 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5334 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Dr Allison Gardner
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| Asking Member handle: |
AllisonCGardner
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@AllisonCGardner
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
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. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-01-30 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4359 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Kinnock
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| Answering Member handle: |
skinnock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@skinnock
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| Answer text: |
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. ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |