Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 4 April 2023 to Question 175572, on Access to Work Programme, how many Access to Work applications were not approved in each of the last three years; and what the reasons were for non-approval.

Applications are not approved for various reasons including – no evidence provided by the applicant, or not eligible for a grant award.

Volumes for the last three years are:

2020/2021 – 20,907

2021/2022 – 20,844

2022/2023 – 33,991

Please note that the data supplied is derived from unpublished management information, which was collected for internal departmental use only, and have not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard. They should therefore be treated with caution.