Access to Work Programme: Staff
(asked on 7th January 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government what was the spending on support workers through Access to Work in each of the last five financial years.
The annual Access to Work Official Statistics show expenditure on the Support Worker element within each financial year from 2007/08 to 2023/24. The latest publication can be found here: Access to Work statistics: April 2007 to March 2024 - GOV.UK
The below table shows expenditure, in real terms (2023/24 prices), on the Support Worker element type from 2019/20 to 2023/24. These figures can be found in Table 12a of the Access to Work Official Statistics:
Financial year | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
Expenditure (£m) in real terms (2023/24 prices) | 104 | 88 | 121 | 136 | 178 |
When interpreting results, particularly comparing time periods, please be aware of the potential effect of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic between 2020/21 and 2022/23.
Nominal expenditure for the Support Worker element type can be located in Table 12 of the Access to Work Official Statistics.