Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time was to receive the results of an Access to Work application in the latest period for which data is available.

The average waiting time to receive the result of an Access to Work application for August 2023 was 46.9 days with a year to date (April 2023 to August 2023) average waiting time of 48.4 days.

Please note that the data supplied is derived from unpublished management information, which was collected for internal departmental use only, and have not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics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.