Universal Credit: Disqualification

(asked on 7th December 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to publish statistics on sanctions imposed under the universal credit scheme during the course of its implementation.


Answered by
Priti Patel Portrait
Priti Patel
This question was answered on 14th December 2015

The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit in September 2013. As outlined in the strategy, officials are quality assuring data for Universal Credit and formulating a definitive list of what statistics will be provided in the future.


These statistics will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.

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