PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Social Security Benefits: Disqualification (16 June 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claimants have been sanctioned in (a) York Central constituency and (b) the UK in (i) the last 12 months and (ii) each previous 12 month period since 2009; and what the average length of each such sanction was in each such period.

Asked by:
Rachael Maskell (Labour)

The latest available information on Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance sanctions, by geographies in Great Britain, is published at:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/:

Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:

https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html

The information requested regarding the length of a sanction is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Information for Northern Ireland are devolved matters which are the responsibility of the Northern Ireland Executive Minister for Social Development. These statistics can be found at:

http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/stats_and_research/benefit_publications.htm

Answered by:
Priti Patel (Conservative)
22 June 2015