Our project gave evidence to the Commons Work & Pensions Committee inquiry into benefit sanctions.

Key points in evidence included:

• Welfare conditionality in the form of benefit sanctions is routinely ineffective in facilitating people’s entry into, or progression within, the paid labour market over time.
• In contrast, appropriate personalised support is pivotal in triggering and sustaining such movements into paid work.

Read the full submission.

Our Director Professor Peter Dwyer was also invited to give oral evidence to a committee hearing as part of the inquiry.

He told MPs that welfare conditionality does not move disabled people into work – ‘so we should concentrate on support’. Benefit sanctions for this group are inappropriate, he said, and should be ended.

Benefit sanctions for Universal Credit recipients who are in work are also inappropriate, Professor Dwyer said.

Watch the session on Parliament TV.