Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 71368

Social Security Benefits: North East

Tabled: 29 August 2025

Answered: 10 September 2025

Question

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

Dame Diana Johnson

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...

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