Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October to Question 65709 on Access to Work Programme, how many times his Department has met what stakeholder groups.

The Access to Work stakeholder forums are run and delivered by stakeholders with DWP policy and service delivery teams attending on average 3 times per year. In addition, we meet other stakeholder groups and provide contributions for DWP Operational Stakeholder Engagement Forum on an ad-hoc basis. It is not possible to quantify the numbers of stakeholder engagements. The department does not hold historic data on the overall number of meetings with stakeholder groups.