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Community Care Grant

Volume 459: debated on Thursday 26 April 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people received a community care grant in each of the last three years; and how many (a) were disabled and (b) were receiving disability living allowance. (116523)

[holding answer 18 January 2007]: The available information is in the following table.

Number of people who received community care grant awards in Great Britain

2004-05

2005-06

All

261,000

273,000

Disabled

94,000

96,000

Notes:

1. A community care grant award is recorded as being made in a given year if the final decision on the application (including any review(s)) was made in that year.

2. Some people in each category received more than one community care grant award in a year.

3. The disabled category does not include pensioners who are disabled or unemployed people who are disabled.

4. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 1,000.

5. Figures are based on an analysis of all community care grant decisions held on the social fund computer system at the end of September following each year.