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Priorities for Scotland - Amendment 2

  • Submitted by: Anas Sarwar, Glasgow, Scottish Labour.
  • Date lodged: Monday, 01 September 2025
  • Motion reference: S6M-18671.2
  • Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, 02 September 2025

As an amendment to motion S6M-18671 in the name of John Swinney (Priorities for Scotland), leave out from "welcomes" to end and insert "notes that the Scottish National Party (SNP) administration has overseen the development of a housing emergency, allowed NHS waiting lists to soar, leading to a two-tier system with those who can afford to pay going private, been forced to scrap its legal climate change targets due to its own inaction, wasted billions of pounds of public money through incompetence and bureaucracy, and stood by while school standards declined; recognises that SNP incompetence means that people in Scotland are not feeling the benefits of the £5.2 billion in additional funding delivered by the UK Labour administration, which is working to restore public services and kickstart economic growth, and believes that Scotland is a country that is full of potential but that it is being failed by the SNP administration, and that, at the election in 2026, people in Scotland can choose a new administration that shares their ambitions and works to deliver the services that they deserve."


Vote

Result 19 for, 98 against, 1 abstained, 11 did not vote Vote Defeated

Scottish National Party

For
0
Against
  • George Adam
  • Karen Adam
  • Clare Adamson
  • Alasdair Allan
  • Tom Arthur
  • Colin Beattie
  • Keith Brown
  • Siobhian Brown
  • Willie Coffey
  • Angela Constance
  • Graeme Dey
  • Natalie Don-Innes
  • Bob Doris
  • James Dornan
  • Jackie Dunbar
  • Annabelle 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
  • Paul McLennan
  • Stuart McMillan
  • Marie McNair
  • Jenni Minto
  • Audrey Nicoll
  • Angus Robertson
  • Shona Robison
  • Emma Roddick
  • Shirley-Anne Somerville
  • Kaukab Stewart
  • Kevin Stewart
  • Nicola Sturgeon
  • John Swinney
  • Michelle Thomson
  • Maree Todd
  • David Torrance
  • Evelyn Tweed
  • Elena Whitham
  • Humza Yousaf
Abstained
0
Did not vote
  • Stephanie Callaghan
  • Collette Stevenson

Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

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

Scottish Labour

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

Scottish Green Party

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

Scottish Liberal Democrats

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

Independent

For
0
Against
  • Jeremy Balfour
  • John Mason
Abstained
  • Fergus Ewing
Did not vote
  • Colin Smyth

Alba Party

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

Reform UK

For
0
Against
0
Abstained
0
Did not vote
  • Graham Simpson

No Party Affiliation

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

Related motion

Motion ref. S6M-18671

Priorities for Scotland

Submitted by: John Swinney, Perthshire North, Scottish National Party, Date lodged: Monday, September 1, 2025

Supported by: Jamie Hepburn, Ivan McKee, Shona Robison
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Tuesday, September 2, 2025


Amendments that have not been voted on

Motion ref. S6M-18671.1

Priorities for Scotland - Amendment 1 - Amendment

Submitted by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats, Date lodged: Monday, September 1, 2025

Current status: Taken in the chamber on Tuesday, September 2, 2025


Motion ref. S6M-18671.3

Priorities for Scotland - Amendment 3 - Amendment

Submitted by: Ross Greer, West Scotland, Scottish Green Party, Date lodged: Monday, September 1, 2025

Current status: Taken in the chamber on Tuesday, September 2, 2025


Motion ref. S6M-18671.4

Priorities for Scotland - Amendment 4 - Amendment

Submitted by: Russell Findlay, West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date lodged: Monday, September 1, 2025

Supported by: Craig Hoy
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Tuesday, September 2, 2025