Question follow-through · 74552

Disability Living Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help reduce the delays in decisions on Disability Living Allowance claims.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
4 Sept 2025
Answer
2 Oct 2025 · 30 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help reduce the delays in decisions on Disability Living Allowance claims.

  2. 4 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    We have seen unprecedented demand in new claims to the DLA Child service line. Additional resources have been deployed, and cases are cleared in date order to ensure fair customer service. As a result, we are seeing improvements in our processing times f...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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