Question follow-through · 114568

Access to Work Programme: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Access to Work reconsideration requests submitted by (a) blind and (b) partially sighted customers have resulted in the original decision being overturned in each of the last three years.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
20 Feb 2026
Target answer date
24 Feb 2026
Answer
2 Mar 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 Feb 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Access to Work reconsideration requests submitted by (a) blind and (b) partially sighted customers have resulted in the original decision being overturned in each of the last three years.

  2. 24 Feb 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    We do not hold this data in a way that can be extracted. Determining this information would require a manual review of all individual reconsideration cases, which would incur a disproportionate cost.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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