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.
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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
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 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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