Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit sanctions have been applied to recipients of universal credit in Great Grimsby constituency in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available.
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 Sanctions official statistics and the Departments release strategy can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/jobseekers-allowance-sanctions