Disability Living Allowance

(asked on 22nd May 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the proportion of parents of children who receive the higher rate disability living allowance mobility component who are not qualified to drive.


Answered by
Sarah Newton Portrait
Sarah Newton
This question was answered on 4th June 2018

The Department does not collect this information. Ability to drive is not an eligibility condition for the higher rate mobility component of Disability Living Allowance. Eligibility is based, for example, on limitations in someone’s ability to freely manoeuvre outdoors without guidance or supervision or whether someone is unable or virtually unable to walk. People in receipt of the higher rate mobility component who wish to join the Motability scheme and lease a vehicle but who cannot drive can nominate a named driver to drive their Motability car.

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