Written question asked by Hugh Bayley (Labour) on Friday, 20 March 2015, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 25 March 2015 (named day). It was answered by Esther McVey (Conservative) on Wednesday, 25 March 2015 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value was of payments for each type of benefit not paid as a result of sanctions against individual claimants in each year since 2010-11 in (a) Yorkshire and the Humber and (b) the City of York; and how many claimants were sanctioned in each such year in each such area.

Answer

The Department does not estimate the amount of benefit withheld as a result of benefit sanctions.

Information concerning sanctions by geographical area can be found at:

Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:

Secondary information