Oral QuestionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

Tabled: 10 November 2020Answered: 16 November 2020

Asked by

Robbie Moore

ConservativeKeighley and Ilkley

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government

Answer from Hansard

The Minister for Social Security and Disability (Sir Stephen Timms)

In the six months up to March last year, we appointed an additional 111 case managers to help deal with increased demand for child DLA. The current target is to clear 90% of new child DLA claims in 45 days. Performance has steadily improved, and I am pleased to say that in March we did hit that target.