Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have been sanctioned in York in the last five years.

The information is publicly available on the link below.

The number of Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support, Jobseeker's Allowance and Universal Credit claimants who have been sanctioned by local authority and region is published at can be found at:

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

Guidance for users is available at:

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

We will be holding future stat-xplore training sessions for all MPs.