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The following information is calculated from the official published statistics which covers the period to the end of September 2019.

Table 1: Social Security Scotland directly employed staff, by location as at end of September 2019

We are unable to provide a response to this question as we do not collate the requested information centrally.

We are putting in place robust plans to deliver Cold Spell Heating Assistance from winter 2021. Our priority in taking on full responsibility for all the devolved benefits is a safe and secure transition so that people continue to receive support at the right time and right amount.

Our position paper clearly states that we expect that delivery of Cold Spell Heating Assistance will continue on the basis of existing eligibility.

The information requested is in the public domain and available at: https://www.gov.uk/disability-premiums

Scottish Child Payment regulations will include provisions to allow Scottish Ministers to make a determination without application where an individual been unsuccessful in their application as a result of a qualifying benefit or child responsibility benefit decision.

In these instances, where this was as a result of an incorrect decision being made on a reserved benefit, and the person has since appealed and received a backdated award, the Scottish Child Payment will also be backdated to the point a person first applied for the Payment.

Disability Premiums for Income Support, Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), income-based Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Housing Benefit are contingent on an award of one or both of the care or mobility component of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) or Personal Independence Payment (PIP) at any rate.

The mid-programme peer review of the Experience Panels began in October 2019. The review was completed in November 2019. The output from the review will be published alongside the annual report for the Experience Panels before the end of 2019.

Scottish Government analysis of the inclusion of a mobility component in Disability Assistance for Older People (DAOP) used Disability Living Allowance (DLA) 65+ client group as the best comparison to DAOP.

The DLA 65+ client group was used for this analysis as, prior to the introduction of Personal Independence Payment (PIP), it had a large caseload of people aged 65+. This included people in the highest age bands, meaning DLA 65+ can be used as a comparator to DAOP. Data on the DLA caseload 65+ caseload from February 2013 was used, as this is the most recent data available before the before the introduction of PIP.

People under state pension age are able to make a new claims for PIP. People may be on the PIP caseload and over state pension age if their claim started when they were below pension age. Given that PIP was introduced in 2013, only a small number of PIP clients are now over state pension age, and none are 80 or above, which the majority of the DAOP caseload will be. This means PIP caseload data is not suitable to compare to DAOP for the purpose of estimating the number of people who would receive a mobility component.

Scottish Government analysis of the inclusion of a mobility component in Disability Assistance for Older People (DAOP) used the Disability Living Allowance (DLA) 65+ client group from February 2013 as the best comparison to DAOP. This is because it is the most recent data available before Personal Independence Payment was introduced and the DLA caseload starts to reduce.

This analysis was conducted and last updated in Summer 2019.

Citizens Advice Scotland’s nine month progress report (November 18 to July 19) shows 7,777 clients have been supported by the Money Talk Team service.