Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 112359

Access to Work Programme: Visual Impairment

Tabled: 10 February 2026
Answered: 16 February 2026

Question

Dr Scott Arthur

LabourEdinburgh South West

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Access to Work awards for blind and partially sighted customers had support worker hours reduced at the point of renewal, in each of the last three years.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
The Department does not hold this data. Determining this information would require manually reviewing individual applications which would incur disproportionate cost.