Access to Work Programme
(asked on 22nd January 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent by the Access to Work scheme in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales, (c) England and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the last five years.
The Access to Work scheme is only available to those living in England, Scotland and Wales.
Please see below the Access to Work expenditure seen in Table 11 and Table 11a of the official statistics broken down in terms of Scotland, Wales and England.
The Access to Work official statistics can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2019
Expenditure by country, 2009/10 - 2018/19 (Nominal Terms) | |||||
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Country not recorded* | £369,000 | £403,000 | £417,000 | £516,000 | £636,000 |
England | £85,852,000 | £85,764,000 | £91,987,000 | £98,362,000 | £114,441,000 |
Wales | £4,121,000 | £3,816,000 | £4,204,000 | £4,234,000 | £5,322,000 |
Scotland | £6,658,000 | £6,500,000 | £7,161,000 | £7,712,000 | £8,721,000 |
Total | £96,999,000 | £96,483,000 | £103,768,000 | £110,823,000 | £129,120,000 |
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Expenditure by country, 2009/10 - 2018/19 (Real Terms, 2018/19 prices) | |||||
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Country not recorded* | £395,000 | £428,000 | £433,000 | £525,000 | £636,000 |
England | £91,951,000 | £91,128,000 | £95,563,000 | £100,166,000 | £114,441,000 |
Wales | £4,413,000 | £4,055,000 | £4,367,000 | £4,311,000 | £5,322,000 |
Scotland | £7,131,000 | £6,906,000 | £7,440,000 | £7,854,000 | £8,721,000 |
Total | £103,890,000 | £102,517,000 | £107,802,000 | £112,856,000 | £129,120,000 |
Source: Disability Service Client (DiSC) administrative system; Single Operating Platform (SOP) payment system; Provider Referrals and Payments System (PRaP).
Notes:
* ‘Not recorded’ is used throughout the Access to Work publication and denotes the customers where that variable is missing. In this case, it is where information relating to a person’s residence is missing, most commonly their postcode.
- The expenditure data in these statistics covers payments directly to individuals and employers, as well as to assessment providers and the Mental Health Support Service.
- The expenditure data in these statistics does not include DWP’s staffing and operational costs relating to Access to Work.
- Real terms expenditure (where actual spending has been adjusted to remove the effects of general price level changes (inflation) over time using price levels from a base year) has been calculated using the Consumer Prices Index published by the Office for National Statistics. Real terms figures provide a more meaningful measurement of change over time.
- Expenditure figures have been calculated using a methodology consistent with that used in the published Access to Work statistics. Please see the background information and methodology note for more information, in particular the “Weighting” section on pages 8-9. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/access-to-work-statistics-background-information-and-methodology
- Access to Work expenditure for each country is based on residency of the beneficiary as opposed to place of work.
- Figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000 due to the weighting methodology used (see Note 4).