Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 74551

Disability Living Allowance

Tabled: 2 September 2025

Answered: 19 September 2025

Question

Julia Buckley

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the processing times of (a) applications for and (b) mandatory reconsiderations of Disability Living Allowance.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms

From April 2025 to August 2025, the actual average clearance times (AACT) for new Disability Living Allowance (DLA) claims is 77 days. Over the same period, the AACT for DLA Mandatory Reconsiderations (MR) is 125 days. These figures are averages, and are ...

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