Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress she has made on the rollout of yellow card warnings in place of immediate benefit sanctions.

We have not committed to rollout yellow card written warnings in place of immediate benefit sanctions. We are still looking into this process by undertaking a series of small-scale Proof of Concepts. This was delayed due to the pandemic. We are working to complete all testing before making an assessment of the merits of extending such a system.