As an amendment to S5M-14406 in the name of Elaine Smith (Ending Austerity, Poverty and Inequality), leave out from "understands" to end and insert "notes that the Scottish Government has used devolved powers to challenge and address root causes of poverty and inequality, including setting targets to help eradicate child poverty by 2030, fully mitigating the so-called bedroom tax, launching the Carer’s Allowance Supplement, extending access to free sanitary products, implementing recommendations from the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Group, increasing the Fair Food Fund and committing to a Disability Employment Action Plan; believes that UK Government policies are a significant driver of poverty and inequality, including welfare reforms that will lead to an annual cut to people in Scotland of £3.7 billion by 2020-21; calls on the UK Government to publish its analysis of the impact of Universal Credit on people’s incomes, and further calls on it to immediately halt the roll-out in Scotland and use the UK Budget to address its fundamental flaws, reinstating work allowances, reversing the two-child limit and lifting the benefits freeze."
Result 61 for, 59 against, 0 abstained, 9 did not vote Vote Passed
Scottish National Party
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Scottish Labour
Scottish Green Party
Scottish Liberal Democrats
Independent
No Party Affiliation
Submitted by: Elaine Smith, Central Scotland, Scottish Labour, Date lodged: Monday, October 22, 2018
Supported by: Monica Lennon
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Result 66 for, 54 against, 0 abstained, 9 did not vote Vote Passed
Submitted by: Alison Johnstone, Lothian, Scottish Green Party, Date lodged: Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Submitted by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats, Date lodged: Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Submitted by: Michelle Ballantyne, South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date lodged: Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Wednesday, October 24, 2018