Access to Work Programme: Scotland

(asked on 5th September 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Neil Gray Portrait
Neil Gray
(Scottish National Party - Airdrie and Shotts)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Scotland received support from Access to Work grants (a) in total and (b) for a mental health condition in each of the last three years.

Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 12th September 2016

The requested data is as follows:

Financial year

Number of people helped by Access to Work in Scotland

Number of people helped by Access to Work in Scotland with a primary medical condition recorded as “Mental health condition

2013/14

2,840

80

2014/15

2,860

90

2015/16

2,790

110

Note:

The Department does not routinely publish regional breakdowns of Access to Work data. These data were obtained from the Disability Service Client database and are rounded to the nearest 10.

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