Social Security Benefits

(asked on 14th July 2017) - 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 11 July 2017 to Question 3252, how much his Department has spent (a) sanctioning and (b) monitoring benefit claimants in the last six months.


Answered by
Damian Hinds Portrait
Damian Hinds
Minister of State (Education)
This question was answered on 19th July 2017

The Department does not separately track the cost of sanctioning and monitoring claimants. A decision to sanction a claimant forms only part of a number of different roles including monitoring and supporting into work and we do not separate the cost of those roles into sanction and non-sanction activity. Therefore we cannot provide a definitive cost for these activities for the last six months.

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