Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for Access to Work grants have been decided in each of the last four weeks.

The volume of Access to Work applications decided in each of the last four weeks is:

Week ending 30/01/2022 = 1,566 applications

Week ending 06/02/2022 = 1,426 applications

Week ending 13/02/2022 = 1,486 applications

Week ending 20/02/2022 = 1,722 applications

Please note that the data supplied is derived from unpublished management information which was collected for internal Departmental use only, and have not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics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.