Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what are the average time is for applications submitted to the Access to Work scheme between 1st November 2024 to 21st May 2025 to be (a) completed and (b) awarded.

The average time taken from an application being submitted to a decision being made for both support being approved and support not approved from November 2024 to April 2025 (May 2025 not available until month end)

November 2024 = 75.4 days

December 2024 = 77.3 days

January 2025 = 80.3 days

February 2025 = 84.6 days

March 2025 = 85.9 days

April 2025 = 94.2 days

Please note that the data supplied is derived from unpublished management information, which was collected for internal Departmental use only, and have not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard. They should therefore be treated with caution.