Question follow-through · 92325
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether staff in her Department have been instructed to apply Access to Work guidance more strictly since July 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 18 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 21 Nov 2025 · 3 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
18 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether staff in her Department have been instructed to apply Access to Work guidance more strictly since July 2024.
20 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Nov 2025
Answer published
For the last year, we have worked to improve decision-making throughout the Access to Work Scheme by ensuring that guidance is applied with greater consistency, helping to provide a fairer process. This may mean that some awards change at the point of ren...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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