Question follow-through · 93763
Access to Work Programme: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of applicants for Access to Work wait longer than the target timeframe for (a) decisions and (b) payments.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 24 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of applicants for Access to Work wait longer than the target timeframe for (a) decisions and (b) payments.
26 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Department publishes official statistics on approvals, expenditure, and customer volumes. However, it does not publish processing times for decisions or payments. Official statistics on approvals and payments are published annually and can be accessed...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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