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Access to Work Programme: Standards

Asked by Clive JonesLiberal DemocratDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 12 February 2026UIN 111337

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of applications for the Access To Work scheme had a wait time of more than two weeks from submitting an application to receiving a decision in 2025 in (a) Berkshire and (b)

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

The Department does not hold data on Access to Work application processing times at the level requested. Determining this information would require manually reviewing individual applications which would incur disproportionate cost.

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