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Blue Badge Scheme: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to reduce processing times for applications to the blue badge digital service.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
28 Mar 2025
Target answer date
1 Apr 2025
Answer
7 Apr 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to reduce processing times for applications to the blue badge digital service.

  2. 1 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The Blue Badge Digital Service offers a national online application and badge management facility through GOV.UK. Nearly 90% of all badge applications are now made through this service. The Department for Transport runs a programme of continuous improveme...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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