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Access to Work Programme: Taxis

Asked by Mr Richard HoldenConservativeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 8 September 2026UIN 21987

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent through the Access to Work scheme on (a) taxi journeys and (b) other private hire vehicle journeys in each of the last three years; and, for those journeys, what the total value was of (i) contributions made by Access to Work and (ii) personal contributions made by recipients.

Answered by Department for Work and Pensions

Although the Department holds information on the specific types of support funded through Access to Work, this data is recorded as descriptive free-text information and extracting it would require manual review of individual records, incurring disproportionate cost.

Statistics on Access to Work expenditure by readily available element and support worker categories are published annually in Table EXP02 of the Access to Work official statistics: Access to Work statistics: April 2007 to March 2025 - GOV.UK.

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