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Access to Work Programme: Hearing Impairment

Answer

Statistics on the number of people in receipt of payment for Access to Work support and average annual payments per person, by support worker type which includes a category for ‘BSL Interpreter’ are published in tables PAY02 and AVG02 of the Access to Work official statistics: Access to Work statistics: April 2007 to March 2025 - GOV.UK. Table 1 summarises these figures:

Table 1. Number of customers in receipt of payment and average annual payment received per customer for ‘BSL Interpreter between financial years 2020/21 and 2024/25

Financial Year	Number of customers in receipt of payment for a ‘BSL Interpreter’	Average annual payment per customer for ‘BSL Interpreter’ (£ nominal)	Average annual payment per customer for ‘BSL Interpreter’ (£ 2024/25 prices)
2020/21	2,810	12,700	14,900
2021/22	2,890	15,200	17,900
2022/23	2,940	16,600	18,300
2023/24	3,170	17,200	17,900
2024/25	3,210	18,200	18,200

Notes

• Numbers of people have been rounded to nearest 10 and average annual payments to nearest £100.
• Real terms expenditure removes the effect of inflation to make year-on-year comparisons more informative, these figures are quoted in 2024/25 prices

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

120203

Session

2024-26

Subjects

Hearing impairment Access to work programme Interpreters Sign language

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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