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Chamber and committees

Question reference: S6O-03578

  • Asked by: Collette Stevenson, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: 5 June 2024
  • Current status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 June 2024

Question

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its work to tackle poverty, in light of recent analysis by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation showing that 86% of low-income households receiving Universal Credit were going without the essentials and that nearly one million people in the UK are "only £10 a week away from poverty".


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