| Heading: |
Disability Living Allowance: Young People |
| Question ID: |
1803940 |
| UIN: |
53185 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-19 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4805 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Alicia Kearns
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Alicia Kearns
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending disability living allowance for children up to the age of 25. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-27 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
163 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Stephen Timms
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| Answering Member handle: |
stephenctimms
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenctimms
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| Answer text: |
Through our Green Paper, Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, we are consulting on raising the age at which young people move from Disability Living Allowance for children (DLAc) to the adult disability benefit Personal... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |