Access to Work Programme
(asked on 15th October 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Access To Work grants have been awarded in (a) Birkenhead and (b) the UK; and what the total value of those grants was in each of the last five years.
To get help from Access to Work you must live in England, Scotland or Wales – there is a different system in Northern Ireland.
England, Scotland or Wales:
Number of people who receive an Access to Work payment and total Access to Work expenditure are published annually as part of the Access to Work statistics which can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2019
Please see specifically:
- Table 6: The number of people who received a payment for any Access to Work provision of each type, 2009/10 - 2018/19
- Table 11: Expenditure on Access to Work provision, 2009/10 - 2018/19 (Nominal Terms)
The tables below show the number of people in Birkenhead who received an Access to Work grant payment in the last five financial years and the total value of those grants.
Birkenhead:
| 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 |
Number of people who received an Access to Work payment | 50 | 40 | 40 | 60 | 80 |
Access to Work Expenditure | £97,000 | £90,000 | £98,000 | £110,000 | £153,000 |
Please note:
- In some cases, Access to Work provision is approved however a DWP payment is not required, for example because provision can be provided at no cost or the employer covers the relevant costs. These cases are not captured above.
- The same person can receive payment for more than one grant of Access to Work of the same type or of different types in a given financial year or in different financial years. The table above shows the number of people who received a payment for one or more Elements in each financial year.
- Expenditure figures have been calculated using a methodology consistent with that used in the published Access to Work statistics. Please see the background information and methodology note for more information, in particular the “Weighting” section on pages 8-9.
- Access to Work expenditure for Birkenhead is based on residency of the beneficiary as opposed to place of work.
- Expenditure figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000 due to the weighting methodology used (see Note 3).
- Number of people who received an Access to Work payment are rounded to the nearest 10 (in line with the published statistics).