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Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applicants for (a) new Access to Work awards and (b) the renewal of existing awards who undertook holistic workplace assessments received support in line with the recommendations of those asses

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
9 Feb 2026
Target answer date
11 Feb 2026
Answer
16 Feb 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Feb 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applicants for (a) new Access to Work awards and (b) the renewal of existing awards who undertook holistic workplace assessments received support in line with the recommendations of those asses

  2. 11 Feb 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 Feb 2026

    Answer published

    The Department does not hold data on how many applicants for (a) new Access to Work awards and (b) the renewal of existing awards who undertook holistic workplace assessments received support in line with the recommendations of those assessments in each o...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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