England’s Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) budget for 2026/27 is £723 million, shared between 296 housing authorities. The DFG is the main public funding route for stairlifts and home adaptations. Look up your council’s allocation below, see how it has changed since 2025/26, and check how funding is distributed nationally. Figures are the allocations confirmed by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on 17 February 2026.
Key figures (2026/27)
- Total England DFG allocation: £723 million across 296 housing authorities, up from £711 million in 2025/26.
- Highest single authority: Birmingham, £16.64m; then Liverpool £10.94m and Manchester £10.53m.
- In two-tier areas, funding goes to district councils. The highest county-area total is Kent, £24.04m.
- 2026/27 is the first year of a new allocations formula. 139 of the 296 authorities are held at exactly their 2025/26 figure by transitional protection, 157 receive more, and none receive less.
- Maximum grant per household: £30,000 in England (means-tested for adults).
An allocation is what your council has to spend for the year, not what you are entitled to. The stairlift grant checker works out the second of those and links you to your council’s own adaptations page.
New: our Disabled Facilities Grant by council master table puts these allocations next to the £30,000 grant limit, funding per resident, and the national delivery times, in one sortable table.
Find your council’s DFG allocation
Search the full list of England housing authorities below. Each row shows the 2026/27 allocation and how it compares with the same authority’s 2025/26 figure. In two-tier county areas, the allocation is made to the district council, not the county council.
| Housing authority | DFG allocation 2026/27 | Change vs 2025/26 |
|---|
Highest-funded individual authorities
| Authority | 2026/27 allocation | Change vs 2025/26 |
|---|---|---|
| Birmingham | £16,636,797 | +3.6% |
| Liverpool | £10,944,132 | +3.6% |
| Manchester | £10,525,724 | No change |
| Leeds | £10,281,651 | No change |
| Cornwall | £9,366,480 | No change |
| County Durham | £8,671,146 | No change |
| Dudley | £7,996,217 | No change |
| Bradford | £6,603,171 | +3.6% |
| Brent | £6,597,406 | No change |
| Sheffield | £6,566,135 | +3.6% |
County-area totals (two-tier areas)
In two-tier counties the DFG is split between district councils. The combined county totals are:
| County area | 2026/27 total | Change vs 2025/26 |
|---|---|---|
| Kent | £24,038,579 | +1.1% |
| Lancashire | £20,986,972 | +1.2% |
| Hampshire | £17,732,070 | +0.3% |
| Essex | £15,277,318 | +3.6% |
| Surrey | £12,624,753 | +0.2% |
| Staffordshire | £12,439,394 | +0.2% |
| Norfolk | £11,710,896 | +3.1% |
| West Sussex | £11,682,451 | No change |
| Hertfordshire | £10,609,894 | +3.5% |
| Devon | £10,452,656 | +2.2% |
| East Sussex | £10,117,668 | +0.4% |
| Derbyshire | £10,057,521 | +2.6% |
| Nottinghamshire | £9,984,692 | +2.0% |
| Lincolnshire | £8,967,438 | +3.6% |
| Suffolk | £8,926,805 | +2.8% |
| Gloucestershire | £8,571,130 | +1.0% |
| Oxfordshire | £8,262,172 | No change |
| Worcestershire | £7,693,188 | +0.6% |
| Warwickshire | £6,392,570 | +0.5% |
| Cambridgeshire | £6,381,355 | +1.4% |
| Leicestershire | £5,716,380 | +3.6% |
How DFG funding is allocated
National DFG funding reaches housing authorities in England through the Better Care Fund. 2026/27 is the first year of a new needs-based formula, which estimates each area’s likely demand from the number of income-deprived disabled working-age adults, the number of additional income-deprived people aged over 65, and the number of disabled children, with a weighting for the higher cost of children’s adaptations and an adjustment for local building costs. The government is phasing the formula in, and transitional protection means no authority receives less in 2026/27 than it was allocated in June 2025. That is why 139 of the 296 authorities show no change in the table above, and why the largest single increase this year is 3.6%. For the national funding trend and grant caps by UK nation, see our UK Disabled Facilities Grant funding statistics, and for approval patterns see our grant approval rates by council analysis.
Sources
- MHCLG, Changing the way government allocates Disabled Facilities Grant funding to local authorities in England: consultation response (Annex A, 2026-27 allocations)
- DHSC and MHCLG, Better Care Fund framework 2026 to 2027
- Foundations, Disabled Facilities Grant annual allocations
- GOV.UK, Disabled Facilities Grants
How to cite this page
Stairlift Guru, “UK Disabled Facilities Grant Allocations by Council”, stairliftguru.co.uk, 2026. Figures are the official 2026/27 allocations published by MHCLG. Free to cite with attribution and a link to this page and the source.
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