Question follow-through · 74742

Social Security Benefits: Lincolnshire

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

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
3 Sept 2025
Target answer date
8 Sept 2025
Answer
12 Sept 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

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

  2. 8 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    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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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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