Access to Work Programme
(asked on 3rd November 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people have been helped back to work by the Access to Work scheme in each of the last five years.
The table below lists annual totals for people who have been helped by Access to Work in each of the last five years.
Customer Type | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 |
Existing customer | 22,480 | 20,760 | 20,670 | 22,850 | 24,730 |
New customer helped | 13,330 | 10,010 | 10,830 | 12,720 | 12,080 |
Total | 35,810 | 30,780 | 31,500 | 35,560 | 36,820 |
Access to Work is not an exclusively back-to-work scheme and the department’s data do not distinguish between those helped into new employment opportunities and those helped to retain existing work. The data quoted here are for total numbers helped by Access to Work.
These figures are taken from the latest statistics for Access to Work, which show figures for people helped by the scheme going back to 2007 and are published quarterly here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/468889/access-to-work-statistics-apr-jun-2015.pdf