Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Garston and Halewood constituency receiving universal credit have been subject to open-ended sanctions since they were introduced.

The information requested is not currently available.

The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on benefit sanctions, including Universal Credit (UC) in April 2016. As outlined in the strategy, officials are currently developing the data for UC sanctions and will only release information once the necessary quality assurance work has taken place. These statistics will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for official statistics.

Benefit Sanction Decision official statistics and the Departments release strategy can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/jobseekers-allowance-sanctions’