PART 4

FURTHER PROVISION IN CONNECTION WITH PARTS 2 AND 3

Information for audit of social security system

Right to support for response to request
87D
1
The Scottish Ministers must comply with an individual’s wish to have another person (“a supporter”) present during any interview, telephone call, video call, drafting of a written response or any other form of provision of a response relating to a request to provide information under section 87B(1), unless the wish is unreasonable.
2
The Scottish Ministers’ duty under subsection (1) includes ensuring that any person acting on their behalf complies with such a wish, unless the wish is unreasonable.
3
The role of a supporter is to support the individual during the interview, telephone call, video call, drafting of a written response or (as the case may be) other form of provision of a response, and includes making representations on the individual's behalf.
4
Nothing in this section is to be read as requiring the Scottish Ministers to provide or pay for a supporter.
Ss. 87B-87E and cross-heading inserted (15.12.2025 for specified purposes) by Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 2), ss. 18(2), 27(2); S.S.I. 2025/377, reg. 2