Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's publication Benefit sanctions statistics to October 2022, how many full time equivalent (a) payroll and (b) non-payroll staff are tasked exclusively with the investigative work on sanction durations data.

We do not hold the information requested.

We will provide updates on progress of the investigative work through the quarterly bulletins and the DWP Statistical Work Programme.