Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 21 February 2024.
Vicky Foxcroft
Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions)
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were awaiting a decision on their Access to Work application on the first day of each month in 2023.
Mims Davies
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The following number of applications were awaiting a decision on their Access to Work applications on the first day of each month in 2023:
January 2023 – 24,490
February 2023 – 24,603
March 2023 – 24,540
April 2023 – 23,915
May 2023 – 24,169
June 2023 – 23,289
July 2023 – 23,143
August 2023 – 22,663
September 2023 – 21,985
October 2023 – 23,348
November 2023 – 24,107
December 2023 – 25,063
Please note that the data supplied is derived from unpublished management information, which was collected for internal Departmental use only, and have not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard. They should therefore be treated with caution.
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