Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 89847

Disability Living Allowance: Children

Tabled: 11 November 2025
Answered: 18 November 2025

Question

Luke Murphy

LabourBasingstoke

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the time taken to process mandatory reconsiderations for Child Disability Living Allowance applications.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
The Department is clear that decisions should be made without delay. The department has increased resources to help reduce wait times for Disability Living Allowance Child Mandatory Reconsideration decisions, by recruiting additional decision makers and r...

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