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Written question asked by Gordon Marsden (Labour) on Wednesday, 18 March 2015, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 23 March 2015 (named day). It was answered by Esther McVey (Conservative) on Monday, 23 March 2015 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.

Social Security Benefits: Blackpool

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recipients of jobseeker's allowance in (a) Blackpool South constituency and (b) Blackpool local authority area were sanctioned in (i) 2012, (ii) 2013, (iii) 2014 and (iv) 2015; and what the total amount of benefits withheld was as a result of those sanctions in each of those areas in each of those years.

Answer

The information we have to answer the first part of the question, in respect of Jobseeker’s Allowance sanctions, by various geographies, up to September 2014, is published and available 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/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm

For part (b) I refer my hon. Member to the answer I gave on the 2 March 2015 to Question UIN 225001

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
228256
Session
2014-15
Subjects
Disqualification Social security benefits Blackpool
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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