Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 111337
Access to Work Programme: Standards
Tabled: 5 February 2026
Answered: 12 February 2026
Question
Clive Jones
Liberal Democrat — Wokingham
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of applications for the Access To Work scheme had a wait time of more than two weeks from submitting an application to receiving a decision in 2025 in (a) Berkshire and (b)
Answer
Sir Stephen TimmsThe Department does not hold data on Access to Work application processing times at the level requested. Determining this information would require manually reviewing individual applications which would incur disproportionate cost.