Margaret Greenwood – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Margaret Greenwood on 2016-07-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish the internal guidance that his Department issues to staff on the safeguards that those staff must observe when consideration is being given to (a) suspend or withhold payment, (b) impose a sanction or (c) terminate a claim in the case of a claimant of jobseeker’s allowance who has a mental health condition.

Damian Hinds

There is no intention to publish the internal guidance as it is for Department use only.