Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-05-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of sanction referrals made by Work Programme providers to a decision maker in his Department have led to (a) a sanction being applied and (b) no sanction being applied.

Esther McVey

Information on the outcomes of decisions resulting from referrals for a sanction for failure to participate in the Work Programme is published and can be found at:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/

Guidance for users is available at:

https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm

Note that the published data is based on decisions and therefore does not show referrals where no decision has been made.

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