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Tuesday 6th May 2014

Asked by: Jim McGovern (Labour - Dundee West)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many sanctions were applied to jobseeker's allowance claimants in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland and (c) Dundee in each of the last three years.

Answered by Esther McVey

Statistics on the number of Jobseeker's Allowance benefit claimants, who have been sanctioned in Great Britain, Scotland and Dundee, are published and can be found at:

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

Guidance for users is available at:

https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm

Information for Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Department for Social Development. Northern Ireland statistics can be found at:

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

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 Feb 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"T8. I have put this question to the Department for Work and Pensions on two previous occasions in the Chamber, but I will try again and perhaps, as the old adage goes, this will be third time lucky. More than 90% of the Work programme participants in my home city …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 Jan 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"On the Work programme, can the Minister explain why Dundee is once again the least supported city in Scotland, with only 9.79% of people being helped back into work by the programme? Will she apologise to the people of Dundee and explain why 90% are still not being helped?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Jul 2013
Oral Answers to Questions

"The most recent figures suggest that of the people who are on the back-to-work programme in my city of Dundee, 9% have managed to get back to work. I admit that that is an improvement on the farcical 1.4% that we had last year—the lowest in the UK, I believe—but …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 17 Jun 2013
Pensions Bill

"rose—..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 27 Feb 2013
Housing Benefit (Under-occupancy Penalty)

"May I ask the right hon. Gentleman how many spare rooms he has in his house—or has he not got round to counting them yet?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 27 Feb 2013
Housing Benefit (Under-occupancy Penalty)

"A couple of weeks ago, I attended a meeting with officers of Dundee city council who said that discretionary payments would be extremely limited because they have never had the funds for that. I asked whether they had smaller houses for people who were willing to move. They replied, “No.”..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 27 Feb 2013
Housing Benefit (Under-occupancy Penalty)

"May I ask the hon. Gentleman—he is making the speech, but this applies to everyone on the Government Benches—whether he can imagine asking his mother, sister, brother, daughter or son to take in a stranger as a lodger?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Jan 2013
Remploy Marine Fife

"I have a Remploy factory in my constituency and we have set up an action group composed of MPs, MSPs, elected local councillors and so on. May I urge my right hon. Friend to use his good offices to ask Fife council to contact Dundee council to see whether we …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Jan 2013
Remploy Marine Fife

"rose—..."
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