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Publication - Impact assessment

Disability Assistance (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023: island communities impact assessment

Published
11 September 2023
Directorate
Social Security Directorate
Part of
Equality and rights
ISBN
9781835212691

This island communities impact assessment (ICIA) considers the potential impact of the Disability Assistance (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 on people living in the Islands under Section 8 of the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018.

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Footnotes

1. Islands (Scotland) Act 2018 (legislation.gov.uk)

2. Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (legislation.gov.uk)

3. Social Security Experience Panels: publications - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

4. A Consultation on Improving Disability Assistance in Scotland - Scottish Government - Citizen Space

5. Child Disability Payment: high level statistics to 31 December 2022 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

6. Adult Disability Payment: high level statistics to 31 October 2022 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

7. Scottish Health Survey 2021: supplementary tables - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

8. Social Security Experience Panels: Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for children - visual summary - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

9. 3 Disability Assistance in Scotland - Disability assistance in Scotland: analysis of consultation responses - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

10. Census 2011: Population Estimates for Scotland | National Records of Scotland (nrscotland.gov.uk)

11. Child Disability Payment: high level statistics to 31 December 2022 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

12. Adult Disability Payment Official Statistics (socialsecurity.gov.scot)

13. Inhabited islands analytical report | Scotland's Census (scotlandscensus.gov.uk)

14. Islands (Scotland) Bill | Scottish Parliament (https://digitalpublications.parliament.scot)

15. Inhabited islands analytical report | Scotland's Census (scotlandscensus.gov.uk)

16. Inhabited islands analytical report | Scotland's Census (scotlandscensus.gov.uk)

17. Inhabited islands analytical report | Scotland's Census (scotlandscensus.gov.uk)

18. Inhabited islands analytical report | Scotland's Census (scotlandscensus.gov.uk)

19. Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2018-21 - analytical report (data.gov.scot)

20. Supporting documents - Child and adolescent health and wellbeing: evidence review - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

21. Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2018-21 - analytical report (data.gov.scot)

22. Stat-Xplore-Table View (dwp.gov.uk)

23. Stat-Xplore-Table View (dwp.gov.uk)

24. The Impacts of COVID-19 on Equality in Scotland (www.gov.scot)

25. Sutherland, F (2015) Remotely excluded: barriers facing Scotland’s rural consumers CAS, Edinburgh, 36 pp

26. A Minimum Income Standard for Remote Rural Scotland: A Policy Update (2016) (www.hie.co.uk)

27. A Minimum Income Standard for Remote Rural Scotland: A Policy Update (2016) (www.hie.co.uk)

28. Disability, Long Term Conditions and Poverty - A report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2014) (www.npi.org.uk)

29. Sutherland, F (2015) Remotely excluded: barriers facing Scotland’s rural consumers CAS, Edinburgh, 36pp

30. Islands (Scotland) Bill | Scottish Parliament (https://digitalpublications.parliament.scot)

31. Scotland's Census 2011: Inhabited Islands Report (2015) (www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk)

Contact

Email: Jennifer.Robertson@gov.scot

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