SNP MSP Ruth Maguire says she welcomes Mr Green's promise that the Scottish government will have power over conditionality and sanctions.

Ms Maguire asks Mr Green to listen to the "real experts" that are the people who need help. 

She says there aren't many people who do not want to work but there are real poverty issues out there.

Mr Green says "absolutely" that is where the peer to peer ideas come in. 

The secretary for state says the system should also change attitudes.

Ms McGuire says it is not attitudes of claimants that needs to change but the system.

Mr Green says he agrees and that he is actually talking about society's attitudes including employers. 

Committee Convener Sandra White brings the Social Security Committee to a close.  

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Kind-hearted Alison Shaw’s family honoured her wish to help others after she suffered a devastating brain haemorrhage last month.

The 63-year-old gran’s heartbroken relations decided to extend her life by three days to prepare for the donor surgery

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Labour MSP Mark Griffin raises the issue of the sad case of Alison Shaw who died in Glasgow in July.

Her family took the courageous decision to keep her on life support for three days to allow others to benefit from her organ donations.

Ms Shaw qualified for her pension after the three days which meant her husband could not get a bereavement payment and Mr Griffin asks if the minister would change this decision.

Mr Green says he has seen the case and his thoughts are with Mrs Shaw's family.

It was a courageous decison, he says, and he says politicians do not give individual benefits so he could not change the benefit decision.

Labour MSP Mark Griffin raises the issue of topping up child benefit in Scotland.

Damian Green says the Scottish government have the powers to top this up if they want to.

The work and pensions secretary says if there are individual cases Mr Adam wishes to bring to him he should. 

SNP MSP George Adam says: You may regret that.

Mr Adam says the writer of I, Daniel Blake, Paul Laverty is in Holyrood today and he says Mr Green can have a signed copy.

Mr Green says: "That's very touching."

Committee convener Sandra White says she has a constituent who has committed suicide after receiving a letter from the DWP.

Ms White reminds the committee that witnesses should be treated with respect.

Damian Green says bringing people committing suicide into a debate is unfortunate. 

Mr Green says to politicize these tragedies is unfortunate in his opinion. 

He says the amount being paid to people who have disabilities is actually going up under PIP. 

SNP MSP George Adam says what Mr green said earlier about MS was naive and it is a problem that the system does not understand these people.

Mr Green says he is not clear how what he said about MS was naive.

Mr Adam said his comments about being able to work at certain stages was naive.

Mr green says he has an employee with MS so he knows the disease quite well. 

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SNP MSP George Adam says he and his fellow politicians have heard "horror stories" about the current benefits system.

Mr Adam asks why "48% of disabled people are living in poverty".

He says the Black Triangle campaign have said the regime of PIP has led to people killing themselves.

Mr Green says he'll be interested to see the Scottish government employability programme and what it contains. 

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Labour MSP Pauline McNeill raises the issue of paying benefit direct to landlords and whether the Scottish government can do this.

Ms McNeill says people can manage their money better if they get it at intervals.

Mr Green says Universal Credit is paid monthly to replicate the world of work.

Scottish Labour MSP Pauline McNeil asks if Mr Green has seen the research into sanctions which highlights the affects on young people and the disproportionate nature of it.

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Mr Green says, as secretary of state, he is continually looking at the sanctions system and the best way to implement it.

He says the purpose of the sanction is to have a backstop so that if a person is not cooperating and not willing to work then there is a system there to say that is unacceptable.

Mr Green says there should be a better system where someone can dispute a sanction. 

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Scottish Conservative MSP Gordon Lindhurst says there are many in the third sector who want to be involved in finding some this disabilities work. 

Mr Lindhurst says the third sector want to work with government agencies and asks how important that is.

Mr Green says he has observed that relationships with third sectors are very good and constructive. 

Richard Cornish from the DWP says there is a huge amount of engagement between sectors. 

The most vulnerable people in Scotland are falling into destitution because the benefits system is "simply not working", a charity said in July.

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) called for urgent government action as it revealed a 47% increase in food bank inquiries on its services.

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It said it provided advice on emergency food providers 7,400 times in 2014/15.

The UK government said the report failed to recognise that poverty in Scotland was at a record low.

A spokeswoman for the Department for Work and Pensions said it spends £90bn a year on working-age benefits to help the most vulnerable in society.

SNP MSP Sandra White says she has heard "horror stories" about the benefits system.

The Social Security Committee convener asks if people with disabilities will once again have to go through this revolving door or work assessments.

Damian Green says: "Not all of them."

The UK minister says someone who has  a condition that will not get better will have their reassessments stopped.

Mr Green says the DWP and the benefits system cannot solve all the problems on its own.

The UK government minister says those with a disability are a huge pool of talent and potential.

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The minister says: "We are getting more disabled people into work than ever before."

He says if someone is at a stage in their life where they have not got the right skills it is for another branch of government to address that.

The minister says his Green Paper is long-termist.

Conservative MSP Adam Tomkins says is it necessary to, not only help people who are out of work, but also to help people back into work.

He says the approach from the DWP and UK government has been a joined up one. He asks if this was an intentional approach in terms of the Green Paper.

Mr Tomkins also asks about the 'ambitious target' to get half of those on disability benefit back into work.

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Mr Macpherson says Mr Green has dismissed the film I Daniel Blake as a work of fiction, but he says the story is by no means an act of fiction.

The SNP MSP calls for a wider recognition of the suffering and distress caused by welfare reform

The UK work and pensions secretary says it is not the intention of anyone connected with the welfare system to cause distress.

He says the system is there to help people.