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Written Question
Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
Monday 23rd March 2015

Asked by: Joan Ruddock (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will direct Jobcentre-plus districts to address the geographical variations in the distribution of jobseeker's allowance sanctions as set out in the report by Crisis entitled Benefit sanctions and homelessness: a scoping report, published March 2015.

Answered by Esther McVey

We deploy a comprehensive monitoring regime to check that sanctions are applied appropriately across our network. Where any site is making significantly more or fewer referrals, an independent team reviews their activity to ensure sanctions are being applied appropriately.


Written Question
Social Security Benefits: Greater London
Monday 23rd March 2015

Asked by: Joan Ruddock (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobseeker's allowance (JSA) sanctions there were per 100 JSA claimants in each London borough in the latest period for which figures are available.

Answered by Esther McVey

Information on the number of Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) sanctions, by various geographies, is available and 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/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm

Claimant count JSA figures are published at:

https://www.nomisweb.co.uk

These figures will enable the information requested to be estimated.