Access to Work Programme
(asked on 28th January 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department spent on (a) assessments and (b) elements under the Access To Work scheme in each year since 2010-11 inclusive.
The yearly expenditure for assessments and elements, for the period 2009/10-2021/21 inclusive, is available in Table 11 and Table 11a of the Access to Work Statistic publications
The latest Access to Work official statistics can be found here:
Access to Work statistics: April 2007 to March 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Access to Work expenditure on assessments and elements for the period 2010/11 to 2020/21 inclusive, in real terms.
| Assessments | Elements |
2010/11 | £6,274,000 | £127,562,000 |
2011/12 | £3,798,000 | £110,694,000 |
2012/13 | £3,201,000 | £111,751,000 |
2013/14 | £3,428,000 | £124,528,000 |
2014/15 | £3,361,000 | £110,064,000 |
2015/16 | £3,160,000 | £108,748,000 |
2016/17 | £3,702,000 | £113,749,000 |
2017/18 | £3,899,000 | £119,368,000 |
2018/19 | £3,403,000 | £136,952,000 |
2019/20 | £4,451,000 | £146,186,000 |
2020/21 | £2,669,000 | £106,624,000 |
Access to Work expenditure on assessments and elements for the period 2010/11 to 2020/21 inclusive, in nominal terms.
| Assessments | Elements |
2010/11 | £5,018,000 | £102,034,000 |
2011/12 | £3,084,000 | £89,884,000 |
2012/13 | £2,652,000 | £92,597,000 |
2013/14 | £2,892,000 | £105,045,000 |
2014/15 | £2,875,000 | £94,125,000 |
2015/16 | £2,725,000 | £93,758,000 |
2016/17 | £3,271,000 | £100,497,000 |
2017/18 | £3,506,000 | £107,318,000 |
2018/19 | £3,131,000 | £125,989,000 |
2019/20 | £4,187,000 | £137,514,000 |
2020/21 | £2,669,000 | £106,624,000 |
Please note the following points on the figures provided:
- Due to the Access to Work digital transformation programme and the move to a new administrative system, we cannot say how many people had an approval or received a payment for Communication Support for Interviews (CSI) in 2020/21. Access to Work continued to provide Communication Support for Interviews to individuals throughout this period.
- The expenditure data in these statistics covers payments directly to individuals and empIoyers, as well as to assessment providers and the Mental Health Support Service. The expenditure data in these statistics does not include DWP’s staffing and operational costs relating to Access to Work.
- Expenditure statistics on Assessments, Communication Support for Interviews and Mental Health Support Service in 2020/21 have been derived directly from SOP. The remaining expenditure statistics in this publication have been derived from DiSC to provide granularity but have been reweighted so that total expenditure is consistent with the Department’s accounts.
- Real terms expenditure (where actual spending has been adjusted to remove the effects of general price level changes (inflation) over time using price levels from a base year) has been calculated using the GDP deflators published by HM Treasury. Real terms figures provide a more meaningful measurement of change over time.