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 "title": "People approved for and paid Access to Work, Great Britain",
 "category": "labour-market",
 "summary": "People who had Access to Work support approved, and people who received a payment for it, in Great Britain each financial year, with the scheme's spending, from DWP's Access to Work statistics.",
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 "volatile": false,
 "status": "Official statistics in development",
 "notes": [
  "People with any Access to Work provision approved in each financial year, and people who received a payment for any provision, as DWP counts them from its case management and payment systems; a person approved in one year may be paid in another.",
  "The spending is DWP's nominal spending on all provision in each year, from its Table EXP01."
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  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T14:48:39Z",
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  "latest_period": "2025/26",
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   "2021/22": 155153000.0,
   "2022/23": 189018000.0,
   "2023/24": 262528000.0,
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  "label": "Approved for any provision",
  "value": 59690.0,
  "period": "2025/26",
  "note": "78,440 people received a payment, and DWP spent £309,066,000"
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    },
    {
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    },
    {
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   "name": "Paid for any provision",
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     "x": "2015/16",
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    {
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