Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April to Question 180270 on Access to Work Programme, whether his Department has made an assessment of the reason for the significant increase in Access to Work applications between 2020-21 and 2022-23.

The increase is likely to be for a variety of reasons, e.g. more people being aware of Access to Work, use of the Health Adjustments Passport and the wider government agenda of supporting more disabled people into work.

More information will be in the Access to Work official statistics published in Autumn 2023.