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The Deputy Convener SNP

Item 4 is consideration of another SSI. The instrument is subject to the affirmative procedure, which means that the Parliament must approve it before it com...

Shirley-Anne Somerville SNP

Thank you, convener. I welcome the opportunity to assist the committee in its consideration of the regulations. A key principle in the cross-border regulatio...

Elena Whitham (Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) (SNP) SNP

Good morning. In its reply to SCOSS, the Scottish Government said that it would prefer the DWP and Social Security Scotland to share data about clients movin...

Shirley-Anne Somerville SNP

This is a disappointing part of the regulations that I am presenting today. The priority for the Scottish Government was to make the journey for a client as ...

Elena Whitham SNP

Will you continue to press for change in a continued quest for the data transfer to happen automatically, or will this be a fait accompli, if we approve the ...

Shirley-Anne Somerville SNP

This is certainly the process that will be in place. With every benefit, we have a system of support to ensure that we analyse what happens in real time with...

David Torrance (Kirkcaldy) (SNP) SNP

Good morning. You touched on this in your opening statement, cabinet secretary. Given that the DWP is not sharing data, what will adults who are in receipt o...

Shirley-Anne Somerville SNP

Again, this is a more complicated situation than we would have hoped for, but, nonetheless, it is about looking at how can we support people during that proc...

Marie McNair (Clydebank and Milngavie) (SNP) SNP

Good morning, cabinet secretary. Sticking with the data issue, I note that the SCOSS report referred to on-going efforts to agree data sharing with the DWP i...

Shirley-Anne Somerville SNP

Despite best efforts, we have not been able to agree a cross-border process on terminal illness cases, which is, I think, particularly disappointing. We note...

Marie McNair SNP

It is just very unfortunate for those people, given that time is not on their side.

The Deputy Convener SNP

As there are no other questions, we move to item 5, which is formal consideration of motion S6M-18126, on approval of the regulations. I invite the cabinet s...

The Deputy Convener SNP

Thank you, cabinet secretary, and I hope that your autumn cold—Interruption. Oh right—thank you. The clerk has just told me that if I do not say this bitty, ...

The Deputy Convener SNP

That being the case, I can now thank the cabinet secretary for battling through the evidence sessions, and I thank her officials in both sessions, too. I su...