Current status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 20 March 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to annex 1 of the Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2026-2031, how it planned to fund the statutory requirement to uprate the Scottish Child Payment, including the introduction of a £40 weekly payment for under-one-year-olds, had the “two-child limit” remained in place.
We put eradicating child poverty at the heart of the Scottish Budget 2026-27 and Scottish Spending Review, which sets out the Scottish Government’s spending plans up to 2028-29.
If funding previously commitment to the planned Two Child Limit Payment was not available, then additional investment associated with the Scottish Child Payment and premium for children under the age of one would have been considered as a priority as part of the budget and spending review process.