To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish available data on the number of Universal Credit claimants who received nil payments as a result of a sanction having reduced their payment to £0 for each month of 2022 to date.
Answered on
27 September 2022
The information requested on the number of UC claimants who receive nil payment as a result of having their Standard Allowance reduced by a sanction is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered by
Department for Work and Pensions
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