Question follow-through · 5056

Disability Living Allowance: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the time taken for Disability Living Allowance Mandatory Reconsideration decisions.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
29 May 2026
Target answer date
2 Jun 2026
Answer
9 Jun 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the time taken for Disability Living Allowance Mandatory Reconsideration decisions.

  2. 2 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    We have approved overtime and reallocated decision makers to clear our outstanding Disability Living Allowance Child Mandatory Reconsideration cases more quickly. This will help us to reduce clearance times.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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