Oral QuestionDepartment for Work and Pensions

If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.

Tabled: 8 September 2020Answered: 14 September 2020

Asked by

Helen Hayes

LabourDulwich and West Norwood

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Answer from Hansard

The Minister for Social Security and Disability (Sir Stephen Timms)

Access to Work does an important job, but current delays with the scheme, and our ambition for an 80% rate of employment, point to the need for reform. The consultation, launched in the “Pathways to Work” Green Paper, closed on 30 June. We are reviewing all aspects of the scheme in the light of the responses that we received.