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Social Security (Lone Parents and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008

Will my noble friend be good enough to assure us that, a year on, there will be a tracking of sanctions, possibly through a letter in the Library? Most JSA sanctions are for young men who do not get out of bed of a morning and do not turn up at interviews and so on and no one would dispute that they need to be brought back into real-life situations. But there are so many concerns here—such as lone parents with disabled children and those who may have to travel an hour and a half as well as dropping their children off with childminders and so one—that we need to know how many sanctions are imposed, to whom and under what circumstances It would help us if my noble friend could tell us that, 12 months on, there will be a letter, if not a formal report—one does not have to be too bureaucratic—making sure that we know how many sanctions have been applied and on what grounds. We could then see whether his assurances, which I am absolutely sure are given in good faith, are being interpreted appropriately in jobcentres.