Question follow-through · 87024
Access to Work Programme: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what training on employment law do Access to Work case managers receive in order to determine whether a requested adjustment is reasonable.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 31 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 5 Nov 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
31 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what training on employment law do Access to Work case managers receive in order to determine whether a requested adjustment is reasonable.
5 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Nov 2025
Answer published
Access to Work case managers do not receive training in employment law. Instead, they are trained to apply the Principles of Access to Work, which are designed to ensure that support provided:Goes above and beyond what is considered a reasonable adjustmen...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Further Education: Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend
9 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Autumn Budget 2025 on further education provision for people aged between 16 and 24 in Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend consti
Further Education: Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend
9 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Autumn Budget 2025 on further education provision for people over the age of 24 in Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend constituen
Universal Credit: Appeals
15 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of claimants who have migrated from Employment and Support Allowance to Universal Credit under managed migration who have had the calculations on their clai
Work Capability Assessments: Recordings
29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has considered the potential merits of introducing routine audio recording of Work Capability Assessments.
Employment: Temperature
25 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help workplaces adapt to rising temperatures.
Department for Work and Pensions: Members
9 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress his Department has made on reducing the time taken to provide a substantive response to casework enquiries from Members of Parliament.
Local Housing Allowance: Uprating
1 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of annually uprating Local Housing Allowance to the 30th percentile of local market rents.
Bereavement Support Payment: Uprating
9 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer ahead of the Autumn Budget regarding funding to uprate the value of Bereavement Support Payment.