Children: Disability
Commons · Question 19214 · Tabled 10 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Question
Asked by Ben Coleman
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the additional costs to families for raising a disabled child.
Answer
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 17 Dec 2024
The DWP pays close attention to the evidence base on the extra costs faced by disabled children, including external academic research but does not endorse a particular external study. For example, Scope’s Disability Price Tag (2023) uses a sensitive econo...