Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many suspensions have been applied to jobseeker's allowance claims in each year since 2010; and how many such suspensions have resulted in the immediate withdrawal of benefit payments.

The information as requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

The information that is available, on the number of adverse Jobseeker's Allowance sanction decisions made in each year since 2010, is published and available 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