Community Care Grant Mr. Hunt 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. Mrs. McGuire [holding answer 18 January 2007]: The available information is in the following table. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |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.| | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------