Analysis and production costs for specific consultations: FOI release
- Published
- 30 October 2024
- Directorate
- Social Security Directorate
- Topic
- Money and tax, Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/202400434488
- Date received
- 2 October 2024
- Date responded
- 22 October 2024
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
You asked for the total cost to produce and analyse the following consultations:
- Call for Evidence for the Independent Review of Adult Disability Payment
- Adult Disability Payment Review: Consultation
- Scotland's Social Security System: Enhanced Administration and Compensation Recovery: Consultation
- Social Security: Safeguarding Data Sharing Consultation
- Winter Heating Benefits: Low Income Winter Heating Assistance
- Devolved Social Security Benefits
Response
Please note that these are external costs only, and a breakdown has been provided where possible.
The answer to your question is:
“Scotland’s Social Security System: Enhanced Administration and Compensation Recovery –Consultation”:
Consultation Publication: £4338.03
Consultation Analysis: £9550.00
Analysis Publication: £3782.36
Miscellaneous (including equipment hire, venue hire and travel): ~£511.83
Total: ~£18,182.22
“Social Security: Safeguarding Data Sharing Consultation”:
Consultation Publication: £316.90
“Winter Heating Benefits: Low Income Winter Heating Assistance”:
Winter Heating Benefits Consultations Analysis – 1: £5927.76
Winter Heating Benefits Consultations Analysis – 2: £13,831.44
Publication of Consultations: £677.35
Total: £20,436.55
“Devolved Social Security Benefits”:
Consultation Publication: ~£617.54
“Call for Evidence for the Independent Review of ADP” and “Adult Disability Payment Review: Consultation”:
At time of writing, the call for evidence and the consultation have been published together, and as such I have provided the total cost below. However, the analysis of the call for evidence and consultation have
not yet been completed.
Publication of both, total: ~£43,176.66
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested. The reasons why we do not have the information are explained in the Annex to this letter.
ANNEX
The Scottish Government does not hold the information requested
The Scottish Government does not have the value of internal costs as part of your request. This is because civil servants normally work on a number of areas as part of their daily duties and do not work exclusively on the consultations mentioned.
As such, I hereby provide you with formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.
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