Select committee: Scottish Affairs Committee
Conclusion 73
Second Report - Welfare policy in Scotland
Published 23 Jun 2021
Addressed to Scotland Office
Scottish Affairs Committee Welfare policy in Scotland All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Conclusion (the committee's words)
The Adult Disability Payment175 will be replacing the Personal Independence Payment (PIP).176 Those eligible for the payment are: • people who are age 16 to state pension age (which in 2021 will be 65); • people who have difficulties with daily living or getting around (or both) and 168 Cabinet Secretary for Social Security and Older People, Statement to Scottish Parliament, 1 April 2020 169 Cabinet Secretary for Social Security and Older People, Statement to Scottish Parliament, 17 November 2020 170 Q161 171 Scottish Government, Child Disability Payment, accessed 24 April 2021 172 Department for Work and Pensions, Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for children, accessed 24 April 2021 173 Scottish Government, Social Security, Terminal illness, accessed 24 April 2021 174 Scottish Government, Social Security, Disability Assistance, accessed 26 April 2021 175 Scottish Government, Social Security, Disability Assistance, accessed 26 April 2021 176 Department for Work and Pensions, Personal Independence Payment (PIP), accesses 26 April 2021 32 Welfare policy in Scotland • have had the physical or mental difficulty for at least 3 months and expect it to continue for at least 9 months. If a person is terminally ill these qualifying periods do not apply.177
From: Scottish Affairs Committee, Second Report - Welfare policy in Scotland (HC 55), 23 June 2021
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 19 November 2021 (deadline 23 August 2021).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The UK Government "notes the Committee's recommendations" and responds to each in turn, accepting little of the report's welfare-policy proposals and referring several to the Scottish Government.
- On the £20 uplift and legacy benefits, it states "There was never any plan to extend the uplift to legacy benefits."
- On work allowances, it states it "has no plans to extend the work allowance to single adults".
- On Help to Claim funding, it "considers the existing resource to be sufficient", and says DWP agreed to fund Citizens Advice Scotland for another year, "up to 31 March 2022".
- On data sharing and Recommendations 2, 7 and 8, it says each data request "must be examined" by DWP as Data Controller, and treats several recommendations as "for the Scottish Government".