Member

The Government fund an organisation to act as the national body for disabled facilities grants and the national body provides support and guidance to local authorities on the efficient delivery of the grant. That includes guidance on working with housing associations to make the best use of already-adapted stock through adapted housing registers. We agree with the importance of local authorities seeking to make best use of those properties and will explore and address this through our update to statutory guidance on allocations. This amendment also seeks to subject all subsequent regulations under this Act to additional parliamentary scrutiny through the affirmative procedure. We consider this disproportionate and an unnecessary use of parliamentary time.