Access to Work Programme

Jenny Willott
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the budget for Access to Work will be in each of the next six years; and if he will make a statement.

Jonathan Shaw
The Access to Work budget for 2008-09 is £69 million. The Green Paper ‘No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility’, Cm 7363, announced that the budget for Access to Work will be doubled. The budget will be steadily increased to £138 million by 2013-14.