Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit sanctions were imposed on benefit claimants in the (a) London Borough of Haringey and (b) Tottenham constituency for a period of (i) one month, (ii) three months and (iii) any other length of time in each year since 2013.

The information requested by local authority and parliamentary constituency is not currently available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. The Department will be making changes to the geographical information available for the next release of the sanctions statistics on 21 February 2018.

The available information on sanction durations for Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Universal Credit (UC) can be found in the official experimental statistics as part of the published official statistics on sanctions. These statistics can be found on pages 11-13 of the pdf document and tables 2.7 and 3.1 available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-sanctions-statistics-2017