Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claims were subject to sanctions in the last three months for which data is available by constituency; and how much was the (a) total and (b) average sum of benefit income lost by claimants due to sanctions in each constituency.

Monthly Universal Credit full service sanction rate statistics are published every three months on Stat-Xplore.

The information requested for part a) and b) is provided in the attached spreadsheet.