Alison McGovern – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alison McGovern on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of providing a BSL interpreter for each individual needing one to fill an access to work position adequately.

Mike Penning

Access to Work is a discretionary grant award designed to assist disabled people and their employers to overcome individual barriers encountered at work. We assess thecosts for all awards, including those for BSL interpreter support, against the specific needs of individual customers. As such, there is no single estimate of the cost of the support the scheme provides.