questionText: 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.
answerText: 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...
heading: Social Security Benefits: North East