Disability Living Allowance: Children

(asked on 9th July 2014) - View Source
Questioner
Kate Green Portrait
Kate Green
(Labour - Stretford and Urmston)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time between claim and a decision on disability living allowance for parents, guardians or representatives of disabled children under 16 years of age was in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Mike Penning Portrait
Mike Penning
This question was answered on 14th July 2014

The data provided is the Actual Average Clearance Time (AACT) which is the average time taken between an application being made and the date the customer was notified of the decision on their claim. This is displayed in Working Days.

Please see data in the table below.

2010-11
Year End

2011-12
Year End

2012-13
Year End

2013-14
Year End

DLANormal Rules

30.3

25.1

21.3

22.4

Notes:

For 2010/11 and 2011/12 data includes both child and adult cases as these were only separated during 2011/12. For all other years data is for child cases only.

Source:

Department for Work and Pensions RDA80123 legacy report – Management Information Statistics

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