Concordat between the Department for Work and Pensions and the Scottish Government

Footnotes

1. References to the Department for Work and Pensions include DWP Ministers and their officials, the Department's businesses including Job Centre Plus and the Pensions Disability and Carers Service, and its sponsored bodies.

2. References to the Scottish Government include Scottish Ministers, their agencies (including Social Security Scotland) and their officials.

3. Memorandum of Understanding and Supplementary Agreements on Devolution between the United Kingdom Government, the Scottish Ministers, the Welsh Ministers, and the Northern Ireland Executive Committee

4. The MoU is subject to review following the decision of the Joint Ministerial Committee Plenary on 14 March 2018. Any reference to the MoU throughout this concordat should therefore be read as a reference to the MoU as amended from time to time.

5. DGN 10: Post-devolution primary legislation affecting Scotland: guidance for UK government departments on handling legislation affecting Scotland. Sets out how the LP Committee expects departments to handle primary legislation affecting Scotland, while ensuring the smooth management of the government's legislative programme.

6. DGN 2: Handling correspondence under devolution: the general principles for the handling by UK government departments of correspondence from members of the devolved legislatures. Guidance on the handling of inter-ministerial and inter-departmental correspondence is available in devolution guidance note 6.

7. DGN 1: Common working arrangements: advice on common working arrangements between the UK government and the devolved administrations. It sets out an introduction to the main principles involved in the managing of the devolution settlements and looks in more depth at bilateral relations, correspondence, parliamentary business, legislation and concordats.

8. DGN 12: Attendance of UK ministers and officials at committees of the devolved legislatures: advice for UK ministers and civil servants on how to deal with invitations to attend committees of devolved legislatures. It does not provide guidance on the giving of evidence to these committees.

9. HMT Statement of Funding Policy 2015

10. Agreement between the Scottish Government and United Kingdom Government on the Scottish Government's Fiscal Framework