Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the longest wait time was between an person submitting an Access to Work application and receiving initial contact from his Department in the last (a) six and (b) 12 months.

The information requested for the longest wait time between an individual submitting an Access to Work application and receiving initial contact from his Department in the last (a) six and (b) twelve months 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