Access to Work Programme: Business
(asked on 19th December 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many people were in receipt of an Access to Work grant by small, medium, or large business in the financial years (1) 2021–22, (2) 2022–23, and (3) 2023–24.
Estimates of the number of individuals who received a payment for an Access to Work element, by employer size, at the end of each of the last three financial years, are provided in the table below.
Employer Size | End of March 2022 | End of March 2023 | End of March 2024 |
Small (0-49 employees) | 8,180 | 10,770 | 17,480 |
Medium (50-249 employees) | 2,680 | 3,190 | 4,420 |
Large (250 or more employees) | 18,330 | 20,690 | 27,880 |
Missing | 180 | 150 | 140 |
Total | 29,370 | 34,800 | 49,920 |
These figures are rounded to the nearest 10 and do not include payments for an Access to Work assessment. Data on the number of Access to Work recipients by employer size is not directly recorded in the Access to Work admin datasets, so these estimates are derived from information which may provide insights to employer size. They may change in future as a consequence of subsequent system updates or changes to methodology.