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Not only in kinship care but fostering, if the grandparents live in a different local authority area from the one that the child comes from, there have been issues with the fact that the local authority where the child comes from is responsible for the payment. Will that be examined? Is it a satisfactory way of working or would it be better for the local authority where the kinship carer lives to pick up the costs because it understands the child’s needs better? Is that being considered in the review, as well?

So local authorities in Scotland will have to pay it; they will not have a choice. Is that correct?

But not less.

I am on PIP at the moment. How much notice will be given to people of when they will be transferred to ADP? It is quite a long time. Is transfer being carried out geographically or alphabetically? How much notice will people be given that they are transferring from the DWP to the new agency?

When will detailed guidance on case transfer from PIP to ADP be published? Do you have a date for publishing it?

Good morning to your team, minister. I suppose that, for the record, I should point out that I am at present on PIP and will, I hope, transfer to ADP at some point. I declare that as an interest.

I think that you said that you would lay the regulations in May. Did I hear that correctly?

Has Social Security Scotland set itself a timescale for how long that review will take? Although it will, hopefully, be light touch, there is still the possibility that a person’s benefit might be taken away, and it will obviously be an uncertain period.

Let us say that a person is transferred over on 1 January. How long will that review take from the day that a person is transferred over? Is there a target date for that?

Do you have a timescale for that?

Words matter and definitions matter. I am interested in your comment that you will recommend a level of payment that local authorities should make. Does “recommend” mean that they have to do it, or is it a suggestion? How far does the word go?

Yes.