Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the (a) number and (b) types of applications to the Access to Work scheme since March 2020 as a result of the imposition of covid-19 lockdown restrictions.

Statistical information about Access to Work is published annually. The most recent data were published in September 2019 and can be viewed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2019

The next set of statistics are due to be published in September 2020, and will cover the twelve months to March 2020.

Under the Code of Practice for Statistics, the figures for 2020/21 cannot be released ahead of the official publication date. For this reason, it is not possible to provide figures for the period you have requested.