Question follow-through · 13916

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people used Access to Work support at what cost and for what reasons in the last financial year.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
12 Nov 2024
Target answer date
14 Nov 2024
Answer
18 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people used Access to Work support at what cost and for what reasons in the last financial year.

  2. 14 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    The most recent complete financial year of data available in the published Access to Work official statistics is 2023/24: Access to Work statistics: April 2007 to March 2024 - GOV.UK. In 2023/24, around 61,630 people received a payment for any Access to W...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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