Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are in receipt of access to work grants by region.

The information on how many people are in receipt of Access to Work grants by region is not readily available and has not previously been published as official statistics. We will consider whether it is feasible to produce the statistics requested and, if so, will issue them in an official statistics release in accordance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.

Official experimental statistics are available on the number of people who had Access to Work provision approved from the financial year between 2007/08 and 2016/17, these statistics show the number of people who had Access to Work provision approved by the type of provision, age, gender and primary medical condition. Access to Work provision was approved for 25,020 individuals in 2016/17 – an 8% increase on 2015/16, at a cost of £104m

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/access-to-work-statistics