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) submitted and (b) rejected in (i) part and (ii) full in the 2024-25 financial year; and how many and what proportion of applications that were rejected were taken to reconsideration.

(a) 157,023 applications were submitted during 2024-25

(b) 88,607 applications were approved during 2024-25 with a further (i)4,227 applications where advice was provided to the claimant. (ii)34,959 applications were not approved with the following reasons:

• No contact
• No Evidence
• Not eligible
• Application not pursued
• Closed other

1,378 reconsideration requests were received during 2024-25, this equates to 1.1% of decisions made had a reconsideration request

Please note that the data supplied is derived from unpublished management information, which was collected for internal Departmental use only, and have not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics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.