Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to (a) track and (b) record the destinations of claimants who have been sanctioned.

The Department publishes experimental statistics on benefit destinations of claimants receiving a benefit sanction which currently show information on the mean number of days spent on working age benefits in the 180 days following a sanction. These figures can be found on in our quarterly Benefit Sanction Statistics available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/jobseekers-allowance-sanctions

Departmental statisticians are currently developing these statistics further to look at destinations into employment.