Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people engaged on community work placements have received a sanction in each month since the programme started.

The available information as requested is shown in the table below.

JSA Sanction Decisions - Number of individuals with an adverse benefit sanction applied due to Failure to participate in the Community Work Placement, Great Britain by month: 28 April 2014 to 30 June 2014

Source: DWP: Sanctions and Disallowance Decisions Statistics Database.

Notes:

1. Statistical disclosure control has been applied to protect against the identification of individual claimants.

2. Information for this sanction reason is available from 28 April 2014 and the latest data available is up to 30 June 2014.

3. The table above shows the number of individuals with adverse sanction decisions made for the referral reason: Failure to participate with a community work placement without good reason (CWP).

4. An adverse decision is a decision to apply a sanction i.e. a decision found against the claimant so a sanction is applied.