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Greater London Authority, Refugee Housing Programme scheme

  • The GLA has £126,183,294 available – they estimate that single beneficiaries may receive more than £10 million within the applicable period. The purpose of the grants was to address the financial challenges of providing housing for refugees, covering various costs for building new homes or making existing ones suitable.
  • Our key takeaways from the SAU report are:
    • Where the subsidy is an on-grant from a central government scheme, the policy objectives of both the subsidy and the initial grant should be included at step 1 of the Assessment.
    • Ensure not to conflate the proportionality and competition aspects of step 3 in a way which renders the competition assessment lacking in detail.
    • Ensure that when conducting the balancing exercise in step 4, you give clarity on all negative impacts and provide supporting documentation in relation to the conclusions which are reached.

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