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Protecting Attainment Funding - Amendment

  • Submitted by: Shirley-Anne Somerville, Dunfermline, Scottish National Party.
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 May 2022
  • Motion reference: S6M-04445.2
  • Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, 18 May 2022

As an amendment to motion S6M-04445 in the name of Michael Marra (Protecting Attainment Funding), leave out from "calls on" to end and insert "notes the Scottish Government’s commitment to invest a record £1 billion through the Scottish Attainment Challenge to recover from COVID-19 and accelerate progress in closing the poverty-related attainment gap through the refreshed Scottish Attainment Challenge, an increase from the £750 million invested over the course of the last parliamentary session; recognises that poverty exists in every community in Scotland; welcomes the clear, funded role in tackling the poverty-related attainment gap; notes that the refreshed Scottish Attainment Challenge model was developed in partnership with, and agreed and welcomed by, COSLA; welcomes that headteachers will continue to be empowered to reduce the poverty-related attainment gap in their school communities; notes the refreshed mission of the Challenge, which focuses on improving outcomes for children and young people impacted by poverty, contributing to the Scottish Government’s ambitions to tackle child poverty, and supports complementary action being taken forward by the Scottish Government to tackle child poverty, including the delivery of five family benefits, including the Scottish Child Payment, increasing the school clothing grant, and through services to support income maximisation."

Vote

Result 67 for, 52 against, 0 abstained, 10 did not vote Vote Passed

Scottish National Party

For
  • Alasdair Allan
  • Angus Robertson
  • Annabelle Ewing
  • Ash Regan
  • Audrey Nicoll
  • Bill Kidd
  • Bob Doris
  • Christina McKelvie
  • Christine Grahame
  • Clare Adamson
  • Clare Haughey
  • Colin Beattie
  • Collette Stevenson
  • David Torrance
  • Elena Whitham
  • Emma Harper
  • Emma Roddick
  • Evelyn Tweed
  • Fergus Ewing
  • Fiona Hyslop
  • Fulton MacGregor
  • George Adam
  • Gillian Martin
  • Gordon MacDonald
  • Graeme Dey
  • Humza Yousaf
  • Ivan McKee
  • Jackie Dunbar
  • Jamie Hepburn
  • Jenni Minto
  • Jenny Gilruth
  • Jim Fairlie
  • Joe FitzPatrick
  • John Mason
  • John Swinney
  • Karen Adam
  • Kate Forbes
  • Kaukab Stewart
  • Keith Brown
  • Kenneth Gibson
  • Kevin Stewart
  • Mairi Gougeon
  • Màiri McAllan
  • Maree Todd
  • Marie McNair
  • Michael Matheson
  • Michelle Thomson
  • Natalie Don
  • Neil Gray
  • Paul McLennan
  • Richard Lochhead
  • Rona Mackay
  • Ruth Maguire
  • Shirley-Anne Somerville
  • Shona Robison
  • Siobhian Brown
  • Stephanie Callaghan
  • Stuart McMillan
  • Tom Arthur
  • Willie Coffey
Against
0
Abstained
0
Did not vote
  • Angela Constance
  • Ben Macpherson
  • James Dornan
  • Nicola Sturgeon

Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

For
0
Against
  • Alexander Burnett
  • Alexander Stewart
  • Annie Wells
  • Brian Whittle
  • Craig Hoy
  • Donald Cameron
  • Douglas Lumsden
  • Douglas Ross
  • Dr. Sandesh Gulhane
  • Finlay Carson
  • Graham Simpson
  • Jackson Carlaw
  • Jamie Greene
  • Jamie Halcro Johnston
  • Liam Kerr
  • Liz Smith
  • Maurice Golden
  • Meghan Gallacher
  • Miles Briggs
  • Oliver Mundell
  • Pam Gosal
  • Rachael Hamilton
  • Russell Findlay
  • Sharon Dowey
  • Stephen Kerr
  • Sue Webber
  • Tess White
Abstained
0
Did not vote
  • Dean Lockhart
  • Edward Mountain
  • Jeremy Balfour
  • Murdo Fraser

Scottish Labour

For
0
Against
  • Alex Rowley
  • Anas Sarwar
  • Carol Mochan
  • Claire Baker
  • Colin Smyth
  • Daniel Johnson
  • Foysol Choudhury
  • Jackie Baillie
  • Katy Clark
  • Mark Griffin
  • Martin Whitfield
  • Mercedes Villalba
  • Michael Marra
  • Monica Lennon
  • Neil Bibby
  • Pam Duncan-Glancy
  • Paul O'Kane
  • Paul Sweeney
  • Rhoda Grant
  • Richard Leonard
  • Sarah Boyack
Abstained
0
Did not vote
  • Pauline McNeill

Scottish Green Party

For
  • Ariane Burgess
  • Gillian Mackay
  • Lorna Slater
  • Maggie Chapman
  • Mark Ruskell
  • Patrick Harvie
  • Ross Greer
Against
0
Abstained
0
Did not vote
0

Scottish Liberal Democrats

For
0
Against
  • Alex Cole-Hamilton
  • Beatrice Wishart
  • Liam McArthur
  • Willie Rennie
Abstained
0
Did not vote
0

No Party Affiliation

For
0
Against
0
Abstained
0
Did not vote
  • Alison Johnstone

Related motion

Motion ref. S6M-04445

Protecting Attainment Funding

Submitted by: Michael Marra, North East Scotland, Scottish Labour, Date lodged: Monday, May 16, 2022

Supported by: Paul Sweeney
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Result 67 for, 51 against, 0 abstained, 11 did not vote Vote Passed

Defeated related amendments

Motion ref. S6M-04445.1

Protecting Attainment Funding - Amendment - Amendment

Submitted by: Oliver Mundell, Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date lodged: Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Supported by: Sharon Dowey
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Result 51 for, 66 against, 0 abstained, 12 did not vote Vote Defeated