Benefit sanctions statistics to February 2024

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UC live service data has been frozen to April 2019, when, the systems that were used to administer live service cases were shut down. It has been decided to remove live service decisions, reasons and destinations from the current and future statistical releases. Releases published before May 2024 will contain the frozen data for UC live service. UC live service data is included in the rate and duration statistics. In recent months, more than 70% of claimants included in the sanction decisions measure have now provided their ethnicity. As a result of this threshold being reached, statistics on sanction decisions and ethnicity will be available within this publication from the August 2024 release. The level of ethnicity declarations for those claimants included within the sanction rate measure, and other measures, has not yet reached the minimum level of 70% in any month, so ethnicity breakdowns of the sanction rate will not be available in August 2024. We will continue to monitor the le