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Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Access to Work applications were (a) submitted and (b) rejected in (i) part and (ii) full in the 2024-25 financial year; and how many and what proportion of applications that were rejected were

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
13 Jun 2025
Target answer date
17 Jun 2025
Answer
25 Jun 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Access to Work applications were (a) submitted and (b) rejected in (i) part and (ii) full in the 2024-25 financial year; and how many and what proportion of applications that were rejected were

  2. 17 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 25 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    (a) 157,023 applications were submitted during 2024-25(b) 88,607 applications were approved during 2024-25 with a further (i)4,227 applications where advice was provided to the claimant. (ii)34,959 applications were not approved with the following reasons...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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