Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an estimate of the (a) number and (b) proportion of benefit claimants who have been sanctioned and subsequently find employment at (i) 3 months, (ii) 6 months and (iii) 12 months after having been sanctioned.

The Department has not made the estimates requested, however Departmental statisticians are currently developing these statistics further to look at destinations into employment following a sanction.

The Department also publishes experimental statistics on claimants receiving a benefit sanction which currently show information on the number and proportion of individuals receiving sanctions, including time spent on benefits following the sanction. These figures can be found in our quarterly Benefit Sanction Statistics available at the following link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/710021/benefit-sanctions-statistics-to-january-2018.pdf