I am delighted to serve under your chairship, Ms Butler. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Sherwood Forest (Michelle Welsh) on securing this important debate. She has made a particularly valuable, thoughtful and passionate contribution this morning, and I join her in wishing Mabel, her mum Rachael and their whole family well. DLA contributes to the extra costs that may arise as a result of a disability or health condition, providing a total of just over £10,000 a year. The qualifying period helps to establish that the disability and resulting needs are of the long-standing nature for which this benefit is designed to offer support. For children who are severely disabled at birth, the qualifying period can start at birth. If a child sadly has an end-of-life diagnosis, special rules apply, and the three-month qualifying period does not apply. The highest rate of the DLA care component will be paid from the date of the claim. The Department has recruited and redeployed in excess of 100 case managers to improve clearance times for child DLA new claims. Between 1 August 2025 and 31 March 2026, the Department cleared around 185,900 child DLA new claims, of which 68.3% were cleared within 45 working days. The percentage of claims cleared within these planned timescales rose from 4.7% to 90.7%. Beyond DLA, social security provides a range of additional support including premiums in income-related benefits, carer's allowance, the Motability scheme and exemption from the benefit cap. The Government have recognised the issues raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Sherwood Forest and my hon. Friend the Member for York Central (Rachael Maskell). The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade closed its "Make Work Pay" consultation on employment rights for unpaid carers and parents of seriously ill children, which includes seeking views on a possible new statutory entitlement to leave and pay for parents of seriously ill children. The Government introduced a new element of up to 12 weeks of neonatal care leave and pay for parents of babies in neonatal care. The national cancer plan for England was published in February and was warmly received, not least for its introduction of a children and young people's travel fund, backed by £10 million. Our goal remains to improve outcomes and experiences for children and young people with serious illnesses and supporting their families. I assure my hon. Friend that we will continue to search for the right levers across Government to further strengthen support for parents in these terrible circumstances, and that we will always approach these issues with compassion.