Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress he has made in implementing the recommendation in the Oakley Review that the Department should work with providers to pilot a new approach using warnings and non-financial sanctions following a first failure to comply with conditionality on the Work Programme.

I refer my Rt.Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 20 November 2014 to Question UIN 214804.

We have already published our response to the Oakley Report and a copy can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/332137/jsa-sanctions-independent-review-government-response.pdf

We have accepted all recommendations made by the Oakley Report and we have already implemented a number of improvements. Our response sets out a number of target completion dates for recommendations made by the Oakley Report.

We will look at the remaining recommendations and will keep the House informed on progress and implementation.