Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Head of Housing on the demand for Disabled Facilities Grants and requesting a supplementary capital estimate to allow applications to continue to be approved.

A report on the uptake of Disabled Facilities Grants on the first quarter of 2004 was noted.

A supplementary capital estimate of £492,000 was approved.

A further monitoring report was requested in November to include the position to the end of the second quarter 2004.

Further to Minute No. 03/194, the Cabinet considered a report by the Head of Housing Services (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) on the uptake of Disabled Facilities Grants during the first quarter of 2004 and requesting a supplementary capital estimate to allow applications to continue to be processed.

Members reiterated their concerns at the decision by the Government unilaterally to cap its contribution to these grants and thus impose additional financial liabilities on the Council and local tax payers.  Whereupon, it was

RESOLVED

  (a)  that the contents of the report be noted;

  (b)  that a supplementary capital estimate of £492,000 be approved; and

  (c)  that a further monitoring report be submitted in November 2004 to reflect the position at the end of the second quarter of the current financial year.