Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

(asked on 24th March 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2015 to Question 226839, whether quarterly or monthly data is now available on the number of adverse employment and support allowance sanction decisions broken down by the Summary International Classification of Diseases since January 2014; and what the reason was for each such sanction.


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Mark Harper Portrait
Mark Harper
This question was answered on 26th March 2015

Information on the number of adverse employment and support allowance sanction decisions broken down by the Summary International Classification of Diseases since January 2014 will shortly be published as part of a response to a Freedom of Information request here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistical-foi-releases

I can confirm that the Department does hold monthly data detailing the reasons for sanctions in such cases.

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