Social security agency in Scotland: outline business case

Collection of the analysis and evidence behind the Ministerial Statement on Scotland's social security agency, made on 27 April 2017.


List of Tables and Figures

Table 1 - Current benefit system
Table 2 - Key milestones for Expert Working Group ( EWG) on Welfare
Table 3 - Summary of Smith social security powers
Table 4 - Weighting Social Security spending by Relative Prosperity
Table 5 - Option performance against all individual criteria
Table 6 - Overall rank by each main criteria in MCA
Table 7 - Comparison of costs
Table 8 - Present Value of costs ( PVC) and Present Value of Benefits ( PVB)
Table 9 - Net present value ( NPV) and Benefit Cost ratio ( BCR)
Table 10 - Standard OB uplifts
Table 11 - BCR including 200% digital Optimism Bias
Table 12 - Sensitivity of cost rankings to changes in costs of individual capabilities
Table 13 - Size of comparator bodies
Table 14 - Volume of work of comparator agencies
Table 15 - Overall risk rating for each of the options
Table 18 - Costs of the hybrids (average cost)
Table 19 - Costs of the hybrids (point estimates)
Table 20 - Breakdown of costs (point estimates) in the hybrid options.

Figure 1 - Total Benefit expenditure in Scotland 2015/16
Figure 2 - Breakdown of benefit expenditure in Scotland 2015/16 on benefits to be devolved
Figure 3 - Criteria used in MCA
Figure 4 - User experience narrative for option 1
Figure 5 - Social Security function overview
Figure 6 - Function overview for all options
Figure 7 - Description of options
Figure 8 - Principles for social security
Figure 9 - Social Security Spending by Income Deciles
Figure 10 - Actual and Weighted Social Security Spending
Figure 11 - Full list of criteria and their groupings
Figure 12 - Fiscal framework box-out
Figure 13 - FTEs in each option (Agency/ SG and public sector)
Figure 14 - Governance Structure
Figure 15 - Project governance
Figure 16 - Results of the MCA
Figure 17 - Main Social Security System Functions
Figure 18 - MCA for hybrid delivery structures
Figure 19 - MCA results for assessments
Figure 20 - Costs of the hybrids (point estimate from CAB model, with 5th percentile, mean and 95th percentile costs from Monte Carlo simulation)
Figure 21 - Capabilities needed to deliver social security

Contact

Email: Andy Park

Phone: 0300 244 4000 – Central Enquiry Unit

The Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG

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