As an amendment to motion S6M-20056 in the name of Alexander Stewart (Controlling the Rising Benefits Bill in Scotland), leave out from first “believes” to end and insert “notes with concern Audit Scotland’s recent assessment of a 'funding gap for devolved social security spending of £2.0 billion by 2029/30' and the absence of a ‘detailed strategy for how [the Scottish Government] will manage the forecast gap between social security funding and spending‘; welcomes the announcement in the 2025 UK Budget of the removal of the two-child limit for universal credit, noting that this will lift an estimated 450,000 children across the UK out of poverty and that, in the assessment of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, ‘the projected fall in child poverty over the current parliament would be the biggest on record‘; believes that this must be followed by a renewed focus in Scotland on tackling the causes of poverty and boosting the means of defeating it, such as employability, housing and education, and further believes that the long-term solution to breaking the generational cycle of poverty in Scotland must include supporting people into sustainable and well-paid work.”
Submitted by: Alexander Stewart, Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date lodged: Monday, December 8, 2025
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Wednesday, December 10, 2025
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: 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