Barry Sheerman – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Barry Sheerman on 2015-11-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many apprentices who have dyslexia have received support from the Access to Work fund in each of the last five years.

Justin Tomlinson

The Government does not collate data on the number of apprentices with dyslexia who have received support from Access for Work.

However, the overall number of people with dyslexia who are helped by Access to Work has been steadily increasing. In 2014/15, 4,560 people who reported dyslexia as their primary condition were supported by the scheme.