Question follow-through · 100449

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that any proposals to amend the Access to Work scheme are subject to consultation with disabled people and piloted before implementation.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
16 Dec 2025
Target answer date
18 Dec 2025
Answer
22 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 16 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that any proposals to amend the Access to Work scheme are subject to consultation with disabled people and piloted before implementation.

  2. 18 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 22 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    This Government values the input of disabled people and people with health conditions, their representative organisations and people that support them. That is why we brought forward the Green Paper and opened a public consultation. We are now carefully r...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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