Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
FOI Reference: FOI/202500467795
Date received: 27 May 2025
Date responded: 24 June 2025
Information requested
Request for information 1
Details of the number of claimants receiving the Daily Living element of Adult Disability Payment broken down by age bands, showing the number of claimants who do and do not score more than 4 points in any of the Daily Living activities. Please provide this information separately for both the standard and the enhanced rate.
Request for information 2
The same information for claimants this time restricted to those where there has been an assessment for entitlement by Social Security Scotland ie excluding those who have migrated from Personal Independence Payments.
Request for information 3
The number of claimants receiving ADP via the special rules.
Request for information 4
The numbers of Scottish claimants who are still receiving Personal Independence Payments awaiting transfer to ADP
Response
Request for information 1 & 2
As of 30 April 2025, there were 476,295 people receiving Adult Disability Payment.
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the costs of locating, retrieving and providing the information requested would exceed the upper cost limit of £600. This is because we do not currently publish the data requested, broken down by age bands.
While we do hold information on the number of claimants who score more than 4 points in any of the Daily Living activities, extracting this data would require reviewing each of the 476,295 individual case files.
Under section 12 of FOISA public authorities are not required to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying would exceed the upper cost limit, which is currently set at £600 by Regulations made under section 12.
Request for information 3
The information you requested is available in Excel format and can be accessed through the Social Security Scotland - Adult Disability Payment statistics to 30 April 2025 publication.
Table 22: Caseload for Adult Disability Payment by special rules status at 30 April 2025.
Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the website(s) listed, then please contact me again and I will send you a paper copy.
Request for information 4
The information you requested is available in Excel format and can be accessed through the Social Security Scotland - Personal Independence Payment statistics to April 2025 publication.
Table 6: Personal Independence Payment Cases with Entitlement and Adult Disability Payment Caseload by month to April 2025.
Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the website(s) listed, then please contact me again and I will send you a paper copy.
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