Evidence supporting David Gauke's assertion at the Conservative Party Conference

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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
David Gauke said during a fringe event at this year's Conservative party conference in Manchester, that 'he was very conscious of the point that there are people, particularly with mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression, whereby you can have a vicious circle, where the stress of sanctions doesn’t result in more compliant behaviour, but… less compliant behaviour'. https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/to...
As there is no publicly available detailed information on the level of compliance of people with mental health conditions like depression or anxiety, I would like to know on which evidence this assertion is based.
More specifically, I will like to have
1) any statistics on the number of claimants with depression and anxiety as primary conditions, and
2) any statistics related to sanctions and repeated sanctions for this category of claimants,
3) any internal studies or analysis undertaken by DWP on the impact of sanctions on people with mental conditions, referring specifically to depression and anxiety, which support David Gauke's assertion.
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J Roberts left an annotation ()

Here is some information from Dr David Webster's latest report which some people might be interested in:

"Table 1 therefore shows the mean quarterly(not monthly) rate of sanctions after challenges for the period July 2011 to March 2017 , for each of the 20 condition groups, ranking them in order from highest to lowest.

The variations between groups are very large. Of the big groups, ‘mental and behavioural’ has the highest rate of sanction, followed by ‘respiratory’, ‘injury and poisoning’, a general ‘other’ group, ‘nervous system’, ‘musculoskeletal’ and ‘circulatory."

https://suwn.files.wordpress.com/2017/09...

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