Written questions

Social Security Benefits: North East

Commons · Question 71368 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 10 Sep 2025

Question

Asked by Matt Vickers

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of benefit claimants in the North East have been subject to sanctions in the last 12 months.

Answer

Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 10 Sep 2025

The Department regularly publishes monthly Universal Credit sanction rate statistics for Great Britain as part of the benefit sanction statistics. The latest statistics to May 2025 are available in table 2.1 of the latest benefit sanction statistics table...