Recommendation 15

As the Minister accepted when he gave oral evidence, the fact that disability benefits are a devolved matter in Scotland presents potentially very serious obstacles to implementation. We are particularly concerned about the possibility that in the future the criteria for determining eligibility for the Adult Disability Payment could be very different from those for PIP, especially in the context of the record level of funding provided to the Scottish Government in the 2025–26 funding settlement. We will scrutinise very carefully the solution the Minister expects to be set out in the autumn White Paper. (Conclusion, Paragraph 120)