Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who have claimed universal credit received a benefit sanction in 2016-17.
The latest available information on Universal Credit sanction decisions is up to December 2016 and is published at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.
Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:
https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html
These statistics cover Universal Credit live service only, more information on these can be found at: