That the Parliament reaffirms its commitment to the social security principles contained in the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 and unanimously adopted by the Parliament, including that social security is an investment in the people of Scotland and is itself a human right; welcomes the abolition of the two-child limit across the UK; calls on the UK Labour administration to go further and scrap other damaging welfare reforms implemented by the previous UK administration, including the benefit cap, and supports the Scottish Government's commitment to reinvest funding to end the two-child limit in further measures to tackle child poverty in Scotland.
Result 72 for, 29 against, 21 abstained, 7 did not vote Agreed
Scottish National Party
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Scottish Labour
Scottish Green Party
Independent
Scottish Liberal Democrats
Reform UK
No Party Affiliation
That the Parliament believes that social security spending by the Scottish Government and its future social security spending commitments are unsustainable; notes the report published by Audit Scotland in September 2025, Adult Disability Payment; further notes that the Audit Scotland report highlights a "funding gap for devolved social security spending of £2.0 billion by 2029/30"; calls on the Scottish Government to explain why, according to Audit Scotland, it "has not yet set out a detailed strategy for how it will manage the forecast gap between social security funding and spending"; believes that raising taxes in order to remove the limit on the child element of Universal Credit was not the right priority for either the Scottish Government or the UK Government, and calls on the Scottish Government to use the money that it will save, as a result of the UK Government's decision, to lower costs for people across Scotland by instead cutting income tax.
Submitted by: Jeremy Balfour, Lothian, Independent, Date lodged: Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Submitted by: Claire Baker, Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour, Date lodged: Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Submitted by: Shirley-Anne Somerville, Dunfermline, Scottish National Party, Date lodged: Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Supported by: Kaukab Stewart
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, December 10, 2025