Access to Work Scheme: Standards
(asked on 29th May 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department’s press release entitled Huge recruitment boost to tackle backlog in vital disability work scheme, published on 19 May 2026, what estimate he has made of the time required to eliminate the backlog of Access to Work applications.
This question was answered on 10th June 2026
As per the press release of 19 May 2026, the Department aims to clear the existing backlog by September 2027.