David Webster (University of Glasgow) briefings on benefit sanctions

Dr David Webster is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow (Urban Studies) at the University of Glasgow. His continuing research on the labour market and social impacts of deindustrialisation is currently mainly on benefit conditionality. It also includes work on sickness/disability claims and their relationship to other aspects of worklessness and to population health; wider aspects of Universal Credit; and the changing pattern of lone parenthood.

Briefings on the DWP's sanctions statistics releases:

• 6 November 2013
• 19 February 2014
• 14 May 2014
• 13 August 2014
• 12 November 2014
• 18 February 2015
• 13 May 2015
• 12 August 2015
• Briefing on the DWP’s JSA/ESA Sanctions Statistics Release, 11 Nov 2015 and Hardship Payments Ad Hoc Statistical Release, 18 Nov 2015
• 17 February 2016
• 18 May 2016
• 17 August 2016 and supplement Explaining the rise and fall of JSA and ESA sanctions 2010-16 3 Oct 2016
• 22 February 2017
• 31 May 2017
• 22 September 2017
• 13 December 2017
• 20 March 2018
• 24 July 2018
• 6 September 2018
• 13 December 2018
• 19 March 2019
• 4 June 2019
• 25 September 2019
• 2 December 2019
• 12 March 2020
• 1 July 2020
• 27 August 2020
• 24 November 2020
• 11 March 2021
• 1 June 2021
• 25 August 2021
• 24 November 2021
• 7 March 2022
• 20 June 2022
• 24 August 2022
• 29 November 2022
• 2 March 2023
• 31 May 2023
• 29 August 2023
• 29 November 2023

David Webster's other publications on sanctions:

• The DWP draft report The Impact of Benefit Sanctions on Employment Outcomes was produced in response to a recommendation by the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee in November 2018 and completed in August 2020. The government originally promised to publish it but then refused. Several Freedom of Infomation requests were also refused, prompting appeals to the Information Commissioner who ordered its publication, which finally took place on 6 April 2023. David Webster's commentary (April 2023)

• Commentary on the government response to the Work and Pensions Commitee report on benefit sanctions (Feb 2019)

• Evidence to the Public Accounts Committee (Dec 2016)

• Briefing on the government's response to the House of Commons Work & Pensions Committee Report on Sanctions (Nov 2015)

• JSA and ESA hardship applications and awards: Apr 2012 to Jun 2015 - early briefing (Nov 2015)

• Evidence submitted to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee Inquiry into benefit sanctions policy beyond the Oakley review (Dec 2014)

• A guide to the Oakley report and the government's response (Sep 2014)

• Evidence submitted to the Fawcett Society inquiry into the impact of sanctions on women (Jul 2014)
• Evidence submitted to Frank Field's All-Party Inquiry into Hunger and Food Poverty (Jul 2014)
• Evidence submitted to the Oakley review of JSA sanctions for claimants failing to take part in back to work schemes (Jan 2014)