Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 18 December 2025 [Draft]
18 Dec 2025 · S6 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
First Minister’s Question Time
Adult Disability Payment
Statistics from Social Security Scotland that were published on Tuesday morning indicate a sustained increase of 19 per cent in rejected applications for adult disability payment. That is worrying and means that ADP is now less generous and less supportive to disabled people than the benefit that it was supposed to replace—the personal independence payment.
Will the First Minister tell us whether that sustained increase is a result of policy change? If so, why has such a policy change been made, given the promise that ADP would be better than PIP?
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Maggie Chapman (North East Scotland) (Green)
Green
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The First Minister
SNP
Obviously, every individual application has to be considered on its merits, and the approach to that has been set out by ministers. The approach of Social Se...