Social security agency: central functions location analysis

Report setting out evidence base for making a decision on where the social security agency’s centrally based functions will be located.


Footnotes

1. Outline Business Case for the Agency for Social Security in Scotland http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0051/00517239.pdf.

2. Delivery Options Appraisal Part 1: The strategic case for change and the governance of social security in Scotland http://www.gov.scot/Topics/People/fairerscotland/future-powers/Publications/Delivery

3. see footnote 1.

4. Ministerial Statement – Minister for Social Security Jeane Freeman, Scottish Parliament, 27 April https://news.gov.scot/speeches-and-briefings/social-security-agency

5. Outline Business Case for the Agency for Social Security in Scotland http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0051/00517239.pdf.

6. Delivery Options Appraisal Part 1: The strategic case for change and the governance of social security in Scotland http://www.gov.scot/Topics/People/fairerscotland/future-powers/Publications/Delivery

7. Outline Business case for the agency for social security in Scotland http://www.gov.scot/publications/outline-business-case-agency-social-security-scotland//

8. Only those UC recipients who are searching for work are included in this measure

9. Based on the most deprived 5% of SIMD deciles.

10. https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//statistics/population-estimates/special-area/mid-2012-settlements/2012-pop-est-sett-local-main-tab3a.pdf

11. Data does not allow a distinction to be made between North and South Lanarkshire

12. Includes Methil, Buckhaven and Leven.

13. Green Book supplementary guidance: multi-criteria decision analysis, HM Treasury https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/green-book-supplementary-guidance-multi-criteria-decision-analysis

Contact

Email: Leila Akhoundova, leila.akhoundova@gov.scot

Phone: 0300 244 4000 – Central Enquiry Unit

The Scottish Government
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