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<p>Information on the number of three years’ sanctions is recorded on our systems
and we centrally collate some Management Information. However, the total number cannot
be calculated as it is collected across different benefits on different systems and
is not centrally collated in a way that allows analysis to be undertaken easily. An
extensive interrogation of our systems would be required in order to provide the information
requested, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Nevertheless, from
the Department’s quarterly sanctions publication, in table 1.7 of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-sanctions-statistics-to-january-2019"
target="_blank">supporting data tables</a>, 2,904 individuals have received three
(or more) high level JSA sanction failures, from October 2012 to January 2019. It
is not possible to readily unpick how many of these were 3 year sanctions (if two
high level sanctions received by an individual were more than a year apart then that
would mean they would not have been escalated up to a 3 year sanction duration after
their 3rd high level failure). The published data on individuals that received a third
high level JSA sanction cannot be split by year. This is because the data is not structured
in a way to readily analyse this.</p>
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