Question follow-through · 51793
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken was to (a) process and (b) pay Access to Work claims once an invoice had been submitted in each of the last five years.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 13 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 May 2025
- Answer
- 20 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken was to (a) process and (b) pay Access to Work claims once an invoice had been submitted in each of the last five years.
15 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2025
Answer published
In response to what the average time taken was to (a) process Access to work claim in each of the last 5 years, Access to work can provide this for the last 4 years. The average time taken was: 2021-2022 = 28.1 days2022-2023 = 57.8 days2023-2024 = 45.1 da...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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