Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 111927

Access to Work Programme: Self-employed

Tabled: 9 February 2026
Answered: 26 February 2026

Question

Pippa Heylings

Liberal DemocratSouth Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2025 to Question 63906, what recent estimate he has made of the waiting times for Access to Work Applications.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
We have interpreted this question as referring to the average processing time from the date an application is submitted to the date a decision is made. The current average processing time for access to work is 100.5 days from April 2025 to January 2026. W...

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