Disability Living Allowance: Children

(asked on 17th November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) number of applicants awaiting a decision and (b) average time between receipt of an application and such a decision being made under the Disability Living Allowance for children as of 17 November 2023.


Answered by
Tom Pursglove Portrait
Tom Pursglove
Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This question was answered on 22nd November 2023

The information requested on the volume of applicants waiting for a decision, and the journey time from an application received by DWP to a decision made, is not readily available. To provide this would incur a disproportionate cost.

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