Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, at what stage an Access to Work application is logged as an outstanding case for statistical purposes.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
An Access to Work application is logged as an outstanding case within 24 hours of submission.
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time is for making an Access to Work request for reasonable adjustments at a job interview.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
The average waiting time for making Access to Work decisions for Communication Support at Interview applications is:
2023/24 = 11.6 days
April 2024 = 9.4 days
Please note that the data supplied is derived from unpublished management information, which was collected for internal Departmental use only, and have not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard. They should therefore be treated with caution.
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken was for a decision to be made on Access to Work requests made by apprentices in the last 12 months.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
However, the Access to Work statistics includes how many applications result in provision being approved from 2007/08 to 2021/23.
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many apprentices made an Access to Work request twelve months.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
However, the Access to Work statistics includes how many applications result in provision being approved from 2007/08 to 2021/23.
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people are awaiting a decision on their Access to Work application after submitting an application in each month between May 2023 and January 2024.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
How many and the proportion of individuals that were awaiting a decision on their Access to Work application after submitting an application in each month between May 2023 and January 2024 is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
However, the Access to Work statistics includes how many applications result in provision being approved from 2007/08 to 2022/23. Please see Table 3 of the Access to Work statistics.
The latest Access to Work statistics can be on the Access to Work statistics on GOV.UK
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the service standard time is for end-to-end processing of an Access to Work application.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
The average service aspiration time is for end-to-end processing of an Access to Work application is 25 days.
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the shortest wait time was between a person submitting an Access to Work application and receiving initial contact from his Department in the last (a) six and (b) 12 months.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
In response to what the shortest wait time was between an individual submitting an Access to Work application and receiving initial contact from the Department in the last (a) six and (b) twelve months, the shortest time for both periods is one day.
Customers making new applications where they are starting work within the next 4 weeks or have a grant coming to an end that requires renewal are prioritised to ensure customers can enter, make changes or move within the labour market.
Please note that the data supplied is derived from unpublished management information, which was collected for internal Departmental use only, and have not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard. They should therefore be treated with caution.
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have requested communication support in job interviews through the access to work scheme in each of the last five years.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
In each of the last five years the following number of applications have been received for communication support in job interviews through the access to work scheme:
2019-20 = Not available (info not collected)
2020-21 = 448
2021-22 = 708
2022-23 = 718
2023-24 = 599
Please note that the data supplied is derived from unpublished management information, which was collected for internal Departmental use only, and have not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard. They should therefore be treated with caution.
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average wait time is between an individual submitting an Access to Work application and receiving initial contact from his Department.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
The average wait time between an individual submitting an Access to Work application and receiving initial contact for the financial year 2023/24 was 36.5 days.
For April 2024 the average time between an individual submitting an Access to Work application and receiving initial contact was 36.9 days.
Please note that the data supplied is derived from unpublished management information, which was collected for internal Departmental use only, and have not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard. They should therefore be treated with caution.
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Modernising support for independent living: the health and disability green paper, published on 29 April 2024, if his Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of the existing mandatory reconsideration process as part of its potential reforms.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
Modernising Support for Independent Living: The Health and Disability Green Paper explores changes that the government could make to the current PIP system to ensure support is targeted where it is most needed. These options include:
Mandatory reconsideration does not feature in the Green Paper.