Fiona O’Donnell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Fiona O’Donnell on 2014-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what funding for the independent living fund his Department has withdrawn from local authorities in (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2016-17.

Mike Penning

Responsibility for supporting former ILF users will transfer to local authorities and the devolved administrations from 1 July 2015.

In line with the commitment made in last year’s Spending Review, local authorities and devolved administrations will be fully funded to enable them to meet those responsibilities in 2015/16

Budgets for 2016/17 and later years will be determined in future Spending Reviews.