Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 33697

Access to Work Programme: Cost Benefit Analysis

Tabled: 25 February 2025
Answered: 5 March 2025

Question

Rupert Lowe

Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of conducting a cost-benefit analysis of the Access to Work scheme.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
The Department has not assessed the potential merits of conducting a cost-benefit analysis of the Access to Work scheme and currently does not have plans to do so.