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Access to Work Programme: Visual Impairment

Asked by Seamus LoganScottish National PartyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 2 March 2026UIN 114568

The question

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.

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

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.

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