Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November to Question 75894 on Access to Work Programme, which stakeholders have attended Access to Work stakeholder forums and the Operational Stakeholder Engagement Forum which his Department's staff have attended in the last 12 months; and which stakeholders his Department's staff have met individually in that period.
DWP Operational Stakeholder Engagement Forum has met on 10 occasions since November 2021 with 48 representatives:
British Limbless Ex Services Men's Association
Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation
Local Government Association (Social Security Advisors Group)
Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA)
National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO)
National Association of Student Money Advisers (NASMA)
National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers
Royal British Legion Industries
Royal National Institute of Blind People
Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC)
The Regional Access to Work Stakeholder Forums are organised and led by stakeholders, and as DWP does not convene these forums we are unable to provide the information requested.