Question reference: S5W-01638
- Asked by: Mairi Gougeon, MSP for Angus North and Mearns, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 26 July 2016
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Current status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 16 August 2016
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has provided to registered social landlords in each year since 2007 to carry out home adaptions for (a) older and (b) disabled people, also broken down by the number of homes that have received this support.
Answer
The Scottish Government provides an annual funding allocation to help registered social landlords (RSLs) meet the needs of their tenants who require housing adaptations. Funding is not ring-fenced for specific client groups and no target number of adaptations is set for individual RSLs. Instead, each RSL, with the assistance of suitably qualified experts such as occupational therapists, will determine the relative priority of each individual application for an adaptation.
The following table sets out the total funding provided to RSLs in Scotland for adaptations from 2007-08 to 2015-16.
| Year | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 |
| Spend (£m) | 13.172 | 11.154 | 12.144 | 10.318 | 12.124 | 10.916 | 12.961 | 13.065 | 13.221 |
Monitoring of the RSL adaptations programme was introduced in 2012-13. Whilst it is not possible to provide details on the number of homes that have received adaptations supported by Scottish Government funding, the following table sets out the number of separate adaptations for each client group from 2012-13 to 2014-15 as reported by RSLs.
| Client Group | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 |
| Disabled person | 2359 | 2716 | 3099 |
| Older person | 2980 | 2865 | 3027 |
| Not reported | 200 | 221 | 94 |
| Total number of adaptations | 5539 | 5802 | 6220 |
We will provide SPICe with the number of adaptations for 2015-16 by client group before the end of the calendar year.