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Home adaptations for renters

RFI-2024-1424
Thursday, 21 November 2024

Request

I am writing to request the following data under the Freedom of Information Act.
If all the below questions cannot be answered within the appropriate time limit, please can you answer the questions in order as below until the limit is reached.

1. How many Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) home adaptations were refused by a) private landlords and b) housing associations in the following financial years?
i) 2019-20
ii) 2020-21
iii) 2021-22
iv) 2022-23
v) 2023-24
vi) A combined total from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2024

NB: If figures cannot be broken down by type of landlord (ie private landlord or housing association landlord), please give a figure for the number of DFG home adaptations refused by all landlords combined, for each of parts i to vi.

2. How many Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) home adaptations were completed for individuals living in private rented accommodation in the following financial years?
i) 2019-20
ii) 2020-21
iii) 2021-22
iv) 2022-23
v) 2023-24

3. How many DFG home adaptations were completed for individuals living in social housing provided by housing associations in the following financial years?
i) 2019-20
ii) 2020-21
iii) 2021-22
iv) 2022-23
v) 2023-24

4. How many DFG home adaptations were completed for individuals living in social housing provided by the council in the following financial years?
i) 2019-20
ii) 2020-21
iii) 2021-22
iv) 2022-23
v) 2023-24

Response

1. This data is not recorded by NSDC as any decision by a landlord to refuse a proposed adaptation in rented property is made following the initial Nottinghamshire County Council Occupational Therapy review. If a landlord has failed to give consent for the proposed scheme, then the OT will not normally make a DFG referral to the Local Authority.  
2.
i) 2019-20 - 7
ii) 2020-21 - 4
iii) 2021-22 - 10
iv) 2022-23 - 4
v) 2023-24 - 6
3.
i) 2019-20 - 18
ii) 2020-21 - 14
iii) 2021-22 - 25
iv) 2022-23 - 21
v) 2023-24 - 21
4.
i) 2019-20 - NIL
ii) 2020-21 - NIL
iii) 2021-22 - NIL
iv) 2022-23 - NIL
v) 2023-24 – NIL

*Tenants of Newark and Sherwood District Council are not required to submit a DFG application as adaptations within the Council’s own stock are funded from the Housing Revenue Account (HRA).