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date	18/03/2015
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will direct Jobcentre-plus districts to address the geographical variations in the distribution of jobseeker's allowance sanctions as set out in the report by Crisis entitled Benefit sanctions and homelessness: a scoping report, published March 2015.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Dame Joan Ruddock
uin	228286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We deploy a comprehensive monitoring regime to check that sanctions are applied appropriately across our network. Where any site is making significantly more or fewer referrals, an independent team reviews their activity to ensure sanctions are being applied appropriately.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 23/03/2015 16:47:25 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	190 label Biography information for Dame Joan Ruddock

228253

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Jobcentre Plus staff were put on a performance improvement plan as a result of making (a) too few and (b) too many sanction referrals in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	228132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We do not record information on the reason performance improvement plans are issued to Jobcentre staff.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 24/03/2015 09:46:03 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms