Access to Work Programme

(asked on 3rd October 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Access to Work applications were (a) made and (b) successful in (i) England, (ii) Wales and (iii) Scotland in (A) 2016-17, (B) 2017-18 and (B) 2018-19.


Answered by
Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 8th October 2019

The information requested about number of applications and length of time between application and receiving support is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

However, in regard to number of successful applications, the published Access to Work statistics include how many applications resulted in provision being approved broken down by financial year and various customer characteristics including region. Please see Table 3 of the Access to Work statistics.

The latest Access to Work statistics can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2019

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