Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average period of time between the approval of an Access to Work application and the payment of Access to Work provision was in each of the last 12 months.
Access to Work has had a significant increase in applications over the last year and have recruited new staff to meet the increased demand and reduce the time it takes to make decisions. Customers making new applications where they are starting work within the next 4 weeks, or have a grant coming to an end that requires renewal, are prioritised to ensure customers are able to enter and remain in the labour market. We are also transforming the Access to Work service through increased digitalisation, that will make the service more efficient, will make the application process easier, and improve the time taken from application through to decision.
The data below shows the average clearance times between the initial date of contact (IDOC) and the date cleared.
Month | IDOC to Clearance (days) AACT |
Nov-21 | 32.5 |
Dec-21 | 33.8 |
Jan-22 | 37.1 |
Feb-22 | 40.3 |
Mar-22 | 37.7 |
Apr-22 | 37.9 |
May-22 | 49.1 |
Jun-22 | 56.0 |
Jul-22 | 59.7 |
Aug-22 | 58.6 |
Sep-22 | 61.1 |
Oct-22 | 63.1 |
The management information presented here has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics, but is provided in the interests of transparency.
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