Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value of hardship payments issued to sanctioned jobseekers' allowance claimants was in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available.

The information is not available.

The latest published information on hardship awards covers the 12 month period from April 2011 to March 2012. This is the link to the publication.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/222972/hardship_adhoc_2011_2012.pdf