Source · Select Committees · Work and Pensions Committee
Recommendation 28
28
Accepted
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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 AI-generated
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.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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In the development of the Health Transformation Programme evaluation strategy, the Department has drawn on wider programme evaluation expertise which has informed the strategy. A review of learning from the evaluation of other relevant programmes within the UK has helped inform the Department’s approach in line with best practice.
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