Question follow-through · 44052
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Pathways to work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published in March 2025, what steps she is taking to (a) reduce levels of time taken to access
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 3 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 11 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Pathways to work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published in March 2025, what steps she is taking to (a) reduce levels of time taken to access
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Apr 2025
Answer published
We are committed to reducing waiting times for Access to Work and are considering the best way to deliver that for customers. We have (a) increased the number of staff processing Access to Work claims and (b) prioritised applications from customers who ar...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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