Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April to Question 176698 on Social Security Benefits: Disqualification, in what way the code used to process the data for Universal Credit sanction duration statistics was not performing as expected; and whether inaccurate data has been published as a result.

The department provides updates on the progress of the ongoing investigation on the main sanctions statistics page.