Speeches

Roger Godsiff – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Roger Godsiff on 2016-03-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has issued to healthcare professionals involved with children with mental health problems on whether they have a responsibility to inform parents that their child may be eligible for disability living allowance.

Alistair Burt

The Department of Health has not issued guidance to healthcare professionals on informing parents of their children’s eligibility for disability living allowance.

The Department for Work and Pensions provides information on benefits, including Disability Living Allowance (DLA), in a range of formats at:

www.gov.uk

This includes information relating to DLA for children and includes links to benefit eligibility calculators that will signpost the user to further information about DLA for children.