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Debate between Stephen Pound and Damian Hinds
Monday 18th December 2017

(6 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Stephen Pound Portrait Stephen Pound (Ealing North) (Lab)
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9. What estimate his Department has made of the number of sanctions that will be applied each month as universal credit is rolled out.

Damian Hinds Portrait The Minister for Employment (Damian Hinds)
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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.