Question follow-through · 74551
Disability Living Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the processing times of (a) applications for and (b) mandatory reconsiderations of Disability Living Allowance.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 19 Sept 2025 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the processing times of (a) applications for and (b) mandatory reconsiderations of Disability Living Allowance.
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Sept 2025
Answer published
From April 2025 to August 2025, the actual average clearance times (AACT) for new Disability Living Allowance (DLA) claims is 77 days. Over the same period, the AACT for DLA Mandatory Reconsiderations (MR) is 125 days. These figures are averages, and are ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Access to Work Programme: Internet
13 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what consideration has been given to allowing appointees to use the Access to Work online portal.