Disability Living Allowance reform – public consultation
Start date: 6 December 2010
Closing date: 18 February 2011
This consultation sought views on the Government‘s proposals to replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) with a new benefit – Personal Independence Payment. The Personal Independence Payment will continue to be a non-means tested, extra costs benefit paid to people who are in and out of work. It will help disabled people remove the barriers they face to leading full and independent lives. The consultation applied to England, Wales and Scotland.
Government response
The Government published its response to this consultation on 4 April 2011.
- Government response to the Disability Living Allowance reform consultation (731KB)
- RTF version – Government response to the Disability Living Allowance reform consultation (345KB) RTF
- Easy read – Government response to the Disability Living Allowance reform consultation (1MB)
If you require a copy of the document in another format, please write to:
DLA Reform Team
Department for Work and Pensions
1st Floor
Caxton House
Tothill Street
London
SW1H 9NA
Responses to the consultation
We received over 5,000 individual responses and over 500 responses from disability organisations. In the interests of transparency the Government has decided to publish all the responses.
The organisation responses are not anonymised. However, in order to protect individuals’ privacy, a number of whom will be in vulnerable situations, we are editing the individual responses to remove personal details and any sensitive information from the replies.
We will not include responses where the correspondent has specifically asked the Department not to publish them.
We received three campaign response templates during the 2010 consultation. We have published a copy of each template and the number of responses we received for each campaign.
- Stop the DLA Takeaway (34KB) – 1164 responses
- Concern on proposed changes to DLA (19KB) – 1016 responses
- Down's Syndrome Postal Campaign (453KB) – 228 responses
The Disability Living Allowance reform consultation
PDF version
Executive summary – English
Executive summary – Welsh
Rich text format
- RTF version – Disability Living Allowance reform (331KB) RTF
Quick summary
Welsh quick summary
Easy read
British Sign Language
- BSL summary – Disability Living Allowance reform
- BSL consultation questions – Disability Living Allowance reform
More information
You can get more information about this consultation from:
DLA Reform Team
1st Floor
Caxton House
Tothill Street
London
SW1H 9NA
Order copies of the consultation from The Stationery Office (www.tsoshop.co.uk).
Our How we consult page has more information about the code of practice we follow and explains how we deal with responses.
- Personal Independence Payment briefing notes have more information about DLA reform
