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Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

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Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 172418, tabled on 23 March 2023

Question

Seema Malhotra
Labour
Feltham and Heston
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how his Department records data on benefit sanctions; and whether that data is held centrally.

Answer

Guy Opperman
Conservative
Hexham
Commons

Answered on

29 March 2023

Details of how sanctions data is recorded is published in the Universal Credit Sanctions: background, information and methodology.

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Department for Work and Pensions
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