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First Special Report - Welfare policy in Scotland: UK and Scottish Government Responses to the Committee’s Second Report

Published 19 November 2021

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At a glance

The government's response

This document responds to Second Report - Welfare policy in Scotland.

This is the government's response, published 19 November 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".

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