Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Damian Hinds and Stephen Pound

Monday 18th December 2017 Commons Chamber

[Stephen Pound (Ealing North) (Lab)]

9. What estimate his Department has made of the number of sanctions that will be applied each month as universal credit is rolled out.

[The Minister for Employment (Damian Hinds)]

The Department does not forecast numbers of sanctions that will be applied. We do not want sanctions to be incurred, but they do play an important part in reasonable conditionality.