Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 120203

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 received funding for a British Sign Language interpreter in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and what was the average cost per person of thos

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
Statistics on the number of people in receipt of payment for Access to Work support and average annual payments per person, by support worker type which includes a category for ‘BSL Interpreter’ are published in tables PAY02 and AVG02 of the Access to Wor...

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