Select committee: Scottish Affairs Committee
Recommendation 80
Second Report - Welfare policy in Scotland
Published 23 Jun 2021
Addressed to Scotland Office
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
We recommend that Social Security Scotland should provide more information on how they will gather the relevant data required to make decisions on the amount of money given to claimants in order to ensure that the move away from face to face assessments works in practice. This ought to include evidence about how these changes impact claimants’ experiences of the benefit system. 191 Inclusion Scotland (WPS0007) 192 Q206 193 Q206 194 Q184 195 Q184 196 Q184 197 Q184 198 Letter from Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work & Minister for Welfare Delivery, Department for Work and Pensions to Chair 22 April 2021 199 Q184 34 Welfare policy in Scotland 5 Universal Credit: Digital by default
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".