Source · Select Committees · Work and Pensions Committee
Recommendation 28
28
Accepted
Paragraph: 122
The Scottish Government is attempting to take a different approach to disability assessment.
Recommendation
The Scottish Government is attempting to take a different approach to disability assessment. Its Adult Disability Payment (ADP) is likely to prove a good test of whether problems with Personal Independence Payment are in its policy framework, or its implementation. We are encouraged by its plans to evaluate fully the ADP pilot, and in particular plans to engage with disabled people as part of the evaluation. We recommend DWP take a similar approach in evaluating its Health Transformation Programme measures. Furthermore, when the Scottish Government publishes its planned evaluation, DWP should learn from the results and consider what changes, if any, it should make to its benefit assessments.
Government Response Summary
The Department agrees and has published an evaluation strategy for the Health Transformation Programme which will use a combination of impact and process evaluation to assess current and future performance, with metrics used to monitor progress and inform decision-making.
Paragraph Reference:
122
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
The Department agrees with this recommendation and has published an evaluation strategy for the Health Transformation Programme on the 25 May 2023. The evaluation strategy sets out how the Department will use a combination of impact and process evaluation to assess the current performance in the Health Transformation Areas as well as future performance as the new Health Assessment Service is developed and rolled out. Programme metrics will be used to monitor progress on an ongoing basis. This evaluation evidence will inform programme decision-making, including roll-out decisions, at key milestones. The evaluation strategy will further iterate as the programme’s plans develop to ensure that evaluation continues to meet both policy and programme needs. The evaluation strategy report commits to publishing information about the programme’s performance and evaluation at points when the service is suitably developed and robust, and where publishing will provide a representative picture of the Health Transformation Programme’s progress.