Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people whose primary medical condition was classified as difficulty in hearing sought reconsideration of their case from (a) a regional Access to Work manager, (b) a senior operational manager, (c) a national AtW delivery manager, (d) a customer services director responsible for AtW and (e) an independent case examiner in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

This data was not historically recorded and we are therefore unable to provide the information that you have requested. The Access to Work reconsideration process has now changed but guidance is yet to be updated. We no longer have 5 stages of reconsideration.