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Written Question
Disability Living Allowance
Thursday 2nd October 2025

Asked by: Julia Buckley (Labour - Shrewsbury)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help reduce the delays in decisions on Disability Living Allowance claims.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

We have seen unprecedented demand in new claims to the DLA Child service line. Additional resources have been deployed, and cases are cleared in date order to ensure fair customer service. As a result, we are seeing improvements in our processing times for new claims. As of the 30th December 2024, The Actual Average Clearance Time was 97.8 days and has since reduced to 57.3 days as of 25th of August 2025, a reduction of 40.5 days.


Written Question
Disability Living Allowance
Friday 19th September 2025

Asked by: Julia Buckley (Labour - Shrewsbury)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

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.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

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 for child DLA claims only, as new claims for DLA are only open to children under the age of 16.


Written Question
Hospitals: Vending Machines
Tuesday 16th September 2025

Asked by: Julia Buckley (Labour - Shrewsbury)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve the provision of healthy food options in hospital vending machines.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

National Health Service hospitals are required to meet the Government Buying Standards for Food and Catering Services through the NHS Standard Contract. They are also required to develop and maintain a food and drink strategy which focuses on healthier eating across the whole hospital community, including for their vending machines.


Division Vote (Commons)
15 Sep 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Julia Buckley (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 304 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 332 Noes - 160
Division Vote (Commons)
15 Sep 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Julia Buckley (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 300 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 316 Noes - 172
Division Vote (Commons)
15 Sep 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Julia Buckley (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 300 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 330 Noes - 158
Division Vote (Commons)
15 Sep 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Julia Buckley (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 300 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 328 Noes - 160
Division Vote (Commons)
15 Sep 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Julia Buckley (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 304 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 327 Noes - 164
Division Vote (Commons)
15 Sep 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Julia Buckley (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 303 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 314 Noes - 178
Division Vote (Commons)
15 Sep 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Julia Buckley (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 301 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 329 Noes - 163