Question follow-through · 1556
Access to Work Programme: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time was between approval of an Access to Work application and commencement of support in each of the past two years, broken down by region.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 14 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2026
- Answer
- 26 May 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
14 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time was between approval of an Access to Work application and commencement of support in each of the past two years, broken down by region.
20 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 May 2026
Answer published
Information on the average time between approval of an Access to Work application and the commencement of support is not held. Providing this information would require a manual review of individual case records, which would incur a disproportionate cost.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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