PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Care Leavers: Social Security Benefits (26 October 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications from care leavers identified through the self-identified marker used by his Department as being between the ages of 18 and 25 submitted a request for reconsideration or appeal of a sanction decision between October 2015 and March 2016.

Asked by:
Helen Hayes (Labour)

The information requested in respect of care leavers is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Answered by:
Damian Hinds (Conservative)
2 November 2016