Chamber and committees

Thank you for that opening statement, minister. I know that my fellow committee members are passionate about this subject and they have many questions to put to you. Our questions are grouped around themes: theme 1 is on the changes to eligibility criteria and independent review; theme 2 is about the transfer from PIP and the disability living allowance to ADP; theme 3 is on moving from the child to the adult disability payment; theme 4 is about gathering evidence and consultations; theme 5 is about financial impacts; and theme 6 is about monitoring and evaluation. Marie McNair will ask the first question.

We will now move on to item 5, on the motion for the information-sharing regulations, as already discussed. I invite the minister to move motion S6M-02603.

Motion moved,

That the Social Justice and Social Security Committee recommends that the Social Security Information-sharing (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022 [draft] be approved.—[Ben Macpherson]

Motion agreed to.

I again invite the committee to agree that the clerks and I will include consideration of the instrument in a short, factual report. Are we agreed?

Members indicated agreement.

Thank you very much for that. Minister, do you have anything further to add, or are we able to move on?

I am going to hand the talking stick over to Jeremy Balfour. I will hand it back to Pam Duncan-Glancy when we move on to the next theme.

Thank you very much for those additional comments, minister. They were very helpful. I will move on to my colleague Natalie Don, who has questions on theme 3 and theme 4. Then, we will bring in Evelyn Tweed to ask about theme 5.

Thank you very much for that additional information.

Minister, do you have anything to add before I go back to Pam Duncan-Glancy to see whether she has further questions?

I understand that my colleague, Miles Briggs, has some questions and he will come in before we move to the formal debate on the motion.

I will bring in my colleague Miles Briggs.