Question follow-through · 96763

Disability Living Allowance: Achondroplasia

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to improve access to Disability Living Allowance for children with achondroplasia.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
3 Dec 2025
Target answer date
18 Dec 2025
Answer
18 Dec 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to improve access to Disability Living Allowance for children with achondroplasia.

  2. 18 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is available to children under the age of 16 who, due to a disability or health condition, have mobility issues and/or have care needs which are substantially in excess of a child the same age without the disability or he...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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