Question follow-through · 19214
Children: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the additional costs to families for raising a disabled child.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the additional costs to families for raising a disabled child.
12 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2024
Answer published
The DWP pays close attention to the evidence base on the extra costs faced by disabled children, including external academic research but does not endorse a particular external study. For example, Scope’s Disability Price Tag (2023) uses a sensitive econo...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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