Find data for Scottish local authorities on people claiming Adult Disability Payment, including Library estimates of how far caseload rollout has progressed.

Find data for Scottish local authorities on people claiming Adult Disability Payment, including Library estimates of how far caseload rollout has progressed.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average processing time was for transferring a claim for the Personal Independence Payment to the Adult Disability Payment under Social Security Scotland in each month in 2023.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average processing time was for transferring a claim for the Personal Independence Payment to the Adult Disability Payment under Social Security Scotland in each month in 2023.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the longest time taken to transfer a claim for a Personal Independence Payment to a claim under Social Security Scotland for an Adult Disability Payment was in each month in 2023.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the longest time taken to transfer a claim for a Personal Independence Payment to a claim under Social Security Scotland for an Adult Disability Payment was in each month in 2023.

I. Letter dated 05/04/2022 from Baroness Stedman-Scott to Baroness Sherlock and Lord Offord regarding the benefits position for people who move from Scotland to England or Wales, as discussed during the debate on the Scotland Act 2016 (Social Security) (Adult Disability Payment and Child Disability Payment) (Amendment) Regulations 2022. 2p. II. Letter dated 08/03/2022 from Iain Stewart MP to Christina Rees MP regarding clarification to answers given during the debate on the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Provision and Modifications) Order 2022: 13 week benefit run on. 2p.

I. Letter dated 05/04/2022 from Baroness Stedman-Scott to Baroness Sherlock and Lord Offord regarding the benefits position for people who move from Scotland to England or Wales, as discussed during the debate on the Scotland Act 2016 (Social Security) (Adult Disability Payment and Child Disability Payment) (Amendment) Regulations 2022. 2p....

I. Letter dated 05/04/2022 from Lord Offord of Garvel to Baroness Sherlock regarding issues raised during the debate on the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance and Information Sharing) (Consequential Provision and Modifications) Order 2022: 13 week run on period, moving from Scotland to England, communications and transfer of powers. 2p. II. Letter dated 08/03/2022 from Iain Stewart MP to Christina Rees MP regarding clarification to answers given during the debate on the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Provision and Modifications) Order 2022. 2p.

I. Letter dated 05/04/2022 from Lord Offord of Garvel to Baroness Sherlock regarding issues raised during the debate on the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance and Information Sharing) (Consequential Provision and Modifications) Order 2022: 13 week run on period, moving from Scotland to England, communications and transfer of...

My Lords, I beg to move that the draft Scotland Act 2016 (Social Security) (Adult Disability Payment and Child Disability Payment) (Amendment) Regulations 2022, laid before the House on 24 January 2022, be approved. I am pleased to introduce this instrument. Subject to approval, it will make some necessary legislative...

My Lords, I beg to move that the draft Scotland Act 2016 (Social Security) (Adult Disability Payment and Child Disability Payment) (Amendment) Regulations 2022, laid before the House on 24 January 2022, be approved. I am pleased to introduce this instrument. Subject to approval, it will make some necessary legislative...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing these regulations. As we have heard, following devolution of responsibility for certain social security benefits, the Scottish Government are introducing ADP for applicants ordinarily resident in Scotland. It will start to replace personal independence payment, PIP, in Scotland from this month.

The primary...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing these regulations. As we have heard, following devolution of responsibility for certain social security benefits, the Scottish Government are introducing ADP for applicants ordinarily resident in Scotland. It will start to replace personal independence payment, PIP, in Scotland from this month.

The primary...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Sherlock, for the points she has made. I shall try to deal with them.

I turn first to what happens to a person if they move now. While DWP is administering the existing disability benefits on behalf of the Scottish Government under agency...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Sherlock, for the points she has made. I shall try to deal with them.

I turn first to what happens to a person if they move now. While DWP is administering the existing disability benefits on behalf of the Scottish Government under agency...

I am grateful for the considerable information that the Minister has given me. In fact, I was not asking or generally complaining about PIP being slow, which is what she said. I do think that it is too slow, but that was not my point; my point is that everything...

I am grateful for the considerable information that the Minister has given me. In fact, I was not asking or generally complaining about PIP being slow, which is what she said. I do think that it is too slow, but that was not my point; my point is that everything...

I think that I was trying to make the point, although I accept that I made it badly, that on the specific point that the noble Baroness has just raised I want to go back to the officials to get more detail, because this must have crossed their desks as...

I think that I was trying to make the point, although I accept that I made it badly, that on the specific point that the noble Baroness has just raised I want to go back to the officials to get more detail, because this must have crossed their desks as...

My Lords, I beg to move that the draft order, which was laid on 31 January 2022, be approved. I am grateful for the opportunity to debate this order. It is the result of collaborative working between the two Governments in Scotland. The order is made under Section 104 of...

My Lords, I beg to move that the draft order, which was laid on 31 January 2022, be approved. I am grateful for the opportunity to debate this order. It is the result of collaborative working between the two Governments in Scotland. The order is made under Section 104 of...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that introduction, and indeed welcome him to the special joys of secondary legislation consideration in the House of Lords. I wish him many more in the future.

We support this order and are pleased to see the Scottish Government using the powers transferred to...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that introduction, and indeed welcome him to the special joys of secondary legislation consideration in the House of Lords. I wish him many more in the future.

We support this order and are pleased to see the Scottish Government using the powers transferred to...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Sherlock, for her comments. It is indeed interesting that the first instrument on this afternoon’s Order Paper covered the same piece of legislation from the other end; we are joined up in that respect. The question here is broadly about the same way and...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Sherlock, for her comments. It is indeed interesting that the first instrument on this afternoon’s Order Paper covered the same piece of legislation from the other end; we are joined up in that respect. The question here is broadly about the same way and...

New social security payment in Scotland

The Government will legislate in Spring 2022 to ensure that the new Adult Disability Payment made by the Scottish Government will be exempt from income tax (as agreed in the 2016 Fiscal Framework Agreement). The legislation will be retrospective from 1 March 2022.

HM Revenue and...

New social security payment in Scotland

The Government will legislate in Spring 2022 to ensure that the new Adult Disability Payment made by the Scottish Government will be exempt from income tax (as agreed in the 2016 Fiscal Framework Agreement). The legislation will be retrospective from 1 March 2022.

HM Revenue and...

My right honourable friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Lucy Frazer) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

New social security payment in Scotland

The Government will legislate in Spring 2022 to ensure that the new Adult Disability Payment made by the Scottish Government will be exempt from income tax...

My right honourable friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Lucy Frazer) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

New social security payment in Scotland

The Government will legislate in Spring 2022 to ensure that the new Adult Disability Payment made by the Scottish Government will be exempt from income tax...

Lords motion to consider. Agreed to on question.

Lords motion to consider. Agreed to on question.

Lords motion to consider. Agreed to on question.

Lords motion to consider. Agreed to on question.

Letter dated 08/03/2022 from Iain Stewart MP to Christina Rees MP regarding clarification to answers given during the debate on the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Provision and Modifications) Order 2022: 13 week benefit run-on, eligibility to additional amounts within reserved income-related benefits. 2p.

Letter dated 08/03/2022 from Iain Stewart MP to Christina Rees MP regarding clarification to answers given during the debate on the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Provision and Modifications) Order 2022: 13 week benefit run-on, eligibility to additional amounts within reserved income-related benefits. 2p.