{
  "dataset": "Children's DLA new claims ordered by the published share cleared within 45 working days",
  "period": "1 August 2025 to 31 March 2026",
  "source": {
    "name": "Disability Living Allowance for children timeliness performance, for new claims cleared between 1 August 2025 and 31 March 2026",
    "type": "Department for Work and Pensions management information",
    "publishedOn": "2026-05-07",
    "accessedOn": "2026-09-11",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dla-for-children-for-claims-cleared-between-1-august-2025-and-31-march-2026/disability-living-allowance-for-children-timeliness-performance-for-new-claims-cleared-between-1-august-2025-and-31-march-2026"
  },
  "method": "One row per month in the DWP release, ordered by the published percentage of new children's DLA claims cleared within 45 working days, highest first. Clearance totals and the within 45 working day counts are DWP's own figures, rounded by DWP to the nearest 100, and the percentages are DWP's own. The months are consecutive, and the 45 working day standard was introduced in August 2025, so the order also reads as the sequence in which the figures moved. Nothing is recalculated and nothing is estimated. A clearance is a decision made, of any kind: DWP does not publish how many of these claims were awarded, so this data says nothing about whether a claim succeeded.",
  "licence": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.",
  "notAnAwardRate": "A cleared claim means a decision was made, of any kind. DWP publishes no award rate for children's DLA by condition or overall in this release, so nothing here may be quoted as a chance of being awarded DLA.",
  "caveats": [
    "These figures are DWP management information from the DLA computer system, collated for internal departmental use and not quality assured to the same extent as official statistics.",
    "Claim counts are rounded by DWP to the nearest 100, so rows may not sum to the totals.",
    "The series starts in August 2025 because that is when the current 45 working day timeliness standard was introduced.",
    "A cleared claim means a decision was made. DWP does not publish how many of these claims were awarded, so nothing here is an award rate.",
    "DWP publishes condition categories for children's DLA only as a caseload of live awards through Stat-Xplore, and publishes no award rate by condition for children. This page does not attempt one.",
    "Scotland: Child Disability Payment has replaced DLA for children there and is administered by the Scottish Government, so it is not in these figures."
  ],
  "total": {
    "clearanceTotal": 185900,
    "clearedWithin45Days": 126900,
    "pctWithin45Days": 68.3
  },
  "rows": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "month": "March 2026",
      "clearanceTotal": 22400,
      "clearedWithin45Days": 20300,
      "pctWithin45Days": 90.7
    },
    {
      "position": 2,
      "month": "February 2026",
      "clearanceTotal": 17200,
      "clearedWithin45Days": 15400,
      "pctWithin45Days": 89.4
    },
    {
      "position": 3,
      "month": "January 2026",
      "clearanceTotal": 19000,
      "clearedWithin45Days": 16500,
      "pctWithin45Days": 87
    },
    {
      "position": 4,
      "month": "November 2025",
      "clearanceTotal": 22000,
      "clearedWithin45Days": 19100,
      "pctWithin45Days": 86.8
    },
    {
      "position": 5,
      "month": "December 2025",
      "clearanceTotal": 15900,
      "clearedWithin45Days": 13700,
      "pctWithin45Days": 86.1
    },
    {
      "position": 6,
      "month": "October 2025",
      "clearanceTotal": 29400,
      "clearedWithin45Days": 24800,
      "pctWithin45Days": 84.1
    },
    {
      "position": 7,
      "month": "September 2025",
      "clearanceTotal": 32200,
      "clearedWithin45Days": 15900,
      "pctWithin45Days": 49.5
    },
    {
      "position": 8,
      "month": "August 2025",
      "clearanceTotal": 27900,
      "clearedWithin45Days": 1300,
      "pctWithin45Days": 4.7
    }
  ]
}