Jobseeker's Allowance: Disqualification

(asked on 6th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of jobseeker's allowance in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK have received a sanction of their benefit in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Priti Patel Portrait
Priti Patel
This question was answered on 14th January 2016

The latest available information on Jobseeker’s Allowance sanctions, including the number of Mandatory Reconsiderations and Appeals, is 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/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html


Please note Mandatory reconsiderations were introduced in 28th October 2013.


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/benefit_publications.htm

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