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HL HL14496
Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
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10 February 2026
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Summary
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Sherlock on 3 February (HL13743), what assessment they have made of the reasons that Universal Credit sanction rates vary by (1) ethnicity, and (2) region.
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10 February 2026
Written question
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Sherlock on 3 February (HL13743), what assessment they have made of the reasons that Universal Credit sanction rates vary by (1) ethnicity, and (2) region.
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25 February 2026
Answer
No formal assessment has been made, but work is ongoing to expand the benefit sanction statistics, detailed below, to allow analysis in the future. The Department regularly publishes Universal Credit sanction rate statistics for Great Britain as part of t...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-02-10/HL14496
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1880593
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