Access to Work Programme: Wales
(asked on 25th February 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the number of successful applications to Access to Work was in each local authority area in Wales in each year since 2015.
The table below shows the number of people who had any Access to Work provision approved in Wales in each financial year from 2014/15 to 2017/18, the most recent complete financial year for which data is available.
Table 1: The number of people who had any Access to Work provision1 approved in Wales, by local authority, 2014/15 - 2017/18
| 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
Blaenau Gwent | 30 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
Bridgend | 70 | 60 | 60 | 70 |
Caerphilly | 70 | 70 | 80 | 90 |
Cardiff | 140 | 150 | 160 | 200 |
Carmarthenshire | 60 | 70 | 80 | 80 |
Ceredigion | 20 | 20 | 10 | 20 |
Conwy | 50 | 60 | 50 | 50 |
Denbighshire | 30 | 20 | 20 | 40 |
Flintshire | 60 | 60 | 70 | 80 |
Gwynedd | 50 | 30 | 30 | 50 |
Isle of Anglesey | 20 | 30 | 20 | 30 |
Merthyr Tydfil | 30 | 20 | 20 | 30 |
Monmouthshire | 30 | 20 | 40 | 30 |
Neath Port Talbot | 70 | 60 | 80 | 90 |
Newport | 50 | 50 | 80 | 80 |
Pembrokeshire | 20 | 20 | 20 | 40 |
Powys | 40 | 40 | 30 | 50 |
Rhondda Cynon Taf | 90 | 100 | 110 | 120 |
Swansea | 110 | 160 | 170 | 200 |
Torfaen | 30 | 30 | 40 | 50 |
Vale of Glamorgan | 50 | 60 | 60 | 60 |
Wrexham | 60 | 40 | 50 | 50 |
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Total | 1,200 | 1,180 | 1,280 | 1,530 |
Notes:
1. There are two main types of Access to Work provision: Assessments and Elements. More than one item of Access to Work provision of the same type or of different types can be approved for the same person in a given financial year or in different financial years. The table above shows the number of people who had one or more item of provision of any type approved in each financial year.
Data source: These statistics were obtained from the Department for Work and Pensions’ Disability Service Client (DiSC) administrative system.
Rounding: Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Figures that are less than 10 after rounding are suppressed and replaced with "-". Totals may not sum due to rounding.