Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 114568
Access to Work Programme: Visual Impairment
Tabled: 20 February 2026
Answered: 2 March 2026
Question
Seamus Logan
Scottish National Party — Aberdeenshire North and Moray East
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Access to Work reconsideration requests submitted by (a) blind and (b) partially sighted customers have resulted in the original decision being overturned in each of the last three years.
Answer
Sir Stephen TimmsWe do not hold this data in a way that can be extracted. Determining this information would require a manual review of all individual reconsideration cases, which would incur a disproportionate cost.