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Supporting Households with Cost of Living Pressures and Rising Energy Bills: Amendment 3

  • Submitted by: Liz Smith, Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 10 March 2025
  • Motion type: Amendment
  • Motion reference: S6M-16750.3
  • Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, 11 March 2025

As an amendment to motion S6M-16750 in the name of Shirley-Anne Somerville (Supporting Households with Cost of Living Pressures and Rising Energy Bills), leave out from “welcomes” to end and insert “notes the ongoing concerns amongst the Scottish business community about the effects of the widening tax differential between Scotland and the rest of the UK; further notes the failure of both the UK Government and the Scottish Government to prioritise policies that will deliver sustained economic growth, investment in infrastructure and more efficient public services, and calls on the Scottish Government to take a balanced approach to net zero, which includes supporting Scotland’s oil and gas industry and ending policies that worsen cost of living pressures.”


Vote

Result 23 for, 83 against, 0 abstained, 23 did not vote Disagreed

Scottish National Party

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

Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

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

Scottish Labour

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

Scottish Green Party

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

Scottish Liberal Democrats

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

Alba Party

For
0
Against
0
Abstained
0
Did not vote
  • Ash Regan

No Party Affiliation

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

Independent

For
0
Against
  • John Mason
Abstained
0
Did not vote
0

Related motion

Motion ref. S6M-16750

Supporting Households with Cost of Living Pressures and Rising Energy Bills

Submitted by: Shirley-Anne Somerville, Dunfermline, Scottish National Party, Date lodged: Monday, March 10, 2025

Supported by: Alasdair Allan, Gillian Martin, Paul McLennan, Kaukab Stewart
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Result 59 for, 48 against, 0 abstained, 22 did not vote Agreed


Amendments

Motion ref. S6M-16750.4

Supporting Households with Cost of Living Pressures and Rising Energy Bills: Amendment 4: Amendment

Submitted by: Paul O'Kane, West Scotland, Scottish Labour, Date lodged: Monday, March 10, 2025

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Result 19 for, 88 against, 0 abstained, 22 did not vote Disagreed


Motion ref. S6M-16750.1

Supporting Households with Cost of Living Pressures and Rising Energy Bills: Amendment 1: Amendment

Submitted by: Ash Regan, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date lodged: Monday, March 10, 2025

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, March 11, 2025


Motion ref. S6M-16750.2

Supporting Households with Cost of Living Pressures and Rising Energy Bills: Amendment 2: Amendment

Submitted by: Patrick Harvie, Glasgow, Scottish Green Party, Date lodged: Monday, March 10, 2025

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, March 11, 2025