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Tackling Child Poverty and Inequality Through the Scottish Budget - Amendment

  • Submitted by: Russell Findlay, West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.
  • Date lodged: Monday, 06 January 2025
  • Motion reference: S6M-16003.4
  • Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, 07 January 2025

As an amendment to motion S6M-16003 in the name of John Swinney (Tackling Child Poverty and Inequality Through the Scottish Budget), leave out from “the investments” to end and insert “that the Scottish Government has failed to reduce child poverty during 17 years of Scottish National Party administration; recognises that the poverty-related attainment gap between the most and least deprived pupils has grown according to the most recent statistics and that the Scottish Government will fail to meet its previously stated target of closing that attainment gap by 2026; acknowledges that Scottish Government policies, which seek to take a more lenient approach to young offenders, have contributed to vulnerable young people in deprived communities being targeted by organised gangs to carry out criminality; believes that the draft Scottish Budget 2025-26 will continue to harm Scotland’s economic growth, which is desperately needed if the country is to tackle child poverty, and calls on the Scottish Government to rethink the draft 2025-26 Scottish Budget by providing workers and businesses across Scotland with a tax cut that will help induce the economic growth that Scotland needs.”

Vote

Result 30 for, 92 against, 0 abstained, 7 did not vote Vote Defeated

Scottish National Party

Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

Scottish Labour

Scottish Green Party

Scottish Liberal Democrats

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Alba Party

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Independent

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No Party Affiliation

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Related motion

Motion ref. S6M-16003

Tackling Child Poverty and Inequality Through the Scottish Budget

Submitted by: John Swinney, Perthshire North, Scottish National Party, Date lodged: Monday, January 6, 2025

Supported by: Jamie Hepburn, Paul McLennan, Shirley-Anne Somerville, Kaukab Stewart
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Amendments that have not been voted on

Motion ref. S6M-16003.1

Tackling Child Poverty and Inequality Through the Scottish Budget - Amendment - Amendment

Submitted by: Maggie Chapman, North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party, Date lodged: Monday, January 6, 2025

Supported by: Patrick Harvie
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Motion ref. S6M-16003.3

Tackling Child Poverty and Inequality Through the Scottish Budget - Amendment - Amendment

Submitted by: Paul O'Kane, West Scotland, Scottish Labour, Date lodged: Monday, January 6, 2025

Current status: Taken in the chamber on Tuesday, January 7, 2025