Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 101896
Access to Work Programme
Tabled: 2 January 2026
Answered: 12 January 2026
Question
Steve Darling
Liberal Democrat — Torbay
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, from January 2023 to December 2025, what information his Department holds on the number of instances where waiting times for Access to Work have resulted in claimants losing their job or having their wo
Answer
Sir Stephen TimmsAccess to Work is only available to people who are in work or about to start work, and the number of hours worked does not affect eligibility, so this type of data is not recorded.