Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit sanctions in Scotland there were in each of the last five years.

The information available for the number of Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance sanction decisions by geography is published at:

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

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

https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html