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Written Question
Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
Monday 23rd March 2015

Asked by: Joan Ruddock (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will direct Jobcentre-plus districts to address the geographical variations in the distribution of jobseeker's allowance sanctions as set out in the report by Crisis entitled Benefit sanctions and homelessness: a scoping report, published March 2015.

Answered by Esther McVey

We deploy a comprehensive monitoring regime to check that sanctions are applied appropriately across our network. Where any site is making significantly more or fewer referrals, an independent team reviews their activity to ensure sanctions are being applied appropriately.

Written Question
Social Security Benefits: Greater London
Monday 23rd March 2015

Asked by: Joan Ruddock (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobseeker's allowance (JSA) sanctions there were per 100 JSA claimants in each London borough in the latest period for which figures are available.

Answered by Esther McVey

Information on the number of Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) sanctions, by various geographies, is available and published 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

Claimant count JSA figures are published at:

https://www.nomisweb.co.uk

These figures will enable the information requested to be estimated.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Sep 2012
Universal Credit and Welfare Reform

"I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for reciting the concerns of a whole range of people and organisations. One of the things that has surprised me most is that every employer in the country will have to report to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs on the circumstances of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Sep 2012
Universal Credit and Welfare Reform

"I am extremely grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way. He said earlier that he would not publish the business case, despite the request. I wonder, however, whether he can tell us something that we assume might be in the business case. How many more hours working in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 01 Feb 2012
Welfare Reform Bill

"I would support entirely what the Minister says but for the fact that in my constituency, rents are so high and housing shortages so great that people do not have a choice. They are obliged to rent properties that entitle them to higher housing benefit, which costs more than the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 01 Feb 2012
Welfare Reform Bill

"As the Minister will know perfectly well, families in work are entitled to housing benefit, and approximately half of housing benefit recipients in my constituency are working families...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 01 Feb 2012
Welfare Reform Bill

"Let me remind my right hon. Friend and, through him, the House that we are talking about benefits and caps that are completely and utterly inappropriate in London where many people in receipt of housing benefit because of high rents are in work. When they are told to move, as …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 01 Feb 2012
Welfare Reform Bill

"We all appreciate that the hon. Gentleman’s constituents who are in work are hard-working and may be getting less than the national average wage, but will he acknowledge that they may well be entitled to a raft of in-work benefits such as working tax credit, child tax credit, child benefit …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Feb 2011
Youth Unemployment

"May I tell my right hon. Friend that in my constituency, in the first 10 years of the Labour Government, youth unemployment was halved? Then we had a recession, and of course it began to rise. Will not the Government’s cuts to the Connexions service, Opening Doors—one of our local …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Feb 2011
Youth Unemployment

"Will the Minister give way?..."
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