Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 120202

Access to Work Programme: Hearing Impairment

Tabled: 11 March 2026
Answered: 20 March 2026

Question

Lorraine Beavers

LabourBlackpool North and Fleetwood

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many users of Access to Work who receive funding for British Sign Language interpreters have had their awards expire before their renewal is processed.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
We do not hold this information in a way that can be extracted. Identifying such cases would require a manual review of individual awards, which would incur disproportionate cost. Please find the Official statistics on payments and approvals which are pub...

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