Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2023 to Question 3350 on Access to Work Programme, how many applications to the Access to Work scheme were rejected in each month from April 2021 to April 2022.

In response to your question, I have provided the information on applications not receiving an Access to Work award below:

April 2021 – 1,678

May 2021 – 1,579

June 2021 – 1,909

July 2021 – 1,784

August 2021 – 1,285

September 2021 – 1,547

October 2021 – 1,853

November 2021 – 2,082

December 2021 – 1,954

January 2022 – 1,807

February 2022 – 1,615

March 2022 – 2016

April 2022 – 1,478

Please note that the data supplied is derived from unpublished management information, which was collected for internal Departmental use only, and have not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official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