Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people received a benefit sanction in December 2017.

The available information on the number of individuals sanctioned by benefit (which can also be broken down by geographic area such as constituency or local authority) is published and can be accessed at:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/

Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html