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Eradicating Child Poverty, the Scottish Government’s Defining Mission: Amendment 2

Submitted by: Holly Bruce, Glasgow Southside, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 September 2026
Motion type: Amendment
Motion reference: S7M-01022.2
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, 03 September 2026

As an amendment to motion S7M-01022 in the name of Shirley-Anne Somerville (Eradicating Child Poverty, the Scottish Government’s Defining Mission), insert at end "; calls for decisive and committed action to disrupt financial inequality between women and men, and recognises the need for targeted action to confront women’s poverty as a vital part of realising its mission to eradicate child poverty; supports the progressive increase to the Scottish Child Payment to £40 per week for all children, not just those under one year old, with the goal of increasing this to £55 per week by the end of the current Parliamentary session, and believes that an increase to the Scottish Child Payment for young parents must be made to compensate for the UK Government’s Young Parent Penalty."

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Result 15 for, 83 against, 13 abstained, 18 did not vote Disagreed

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Related motion

Eradicating Child Poverty, the Scottish Government’s Defining Mission

Submitted by: Shirley-Anne Somerville, Dunfermline, Scottish National Party

Date lodged: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Motion reference: S7M-01022

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, September 3, 2026

Supported by: Siobhian Brown, Simita Kumar, Màiri McAllan

Result 36 for, 63 against, 15 abstained, 15 did not vote Disagreed

Amendments

Eradicating Child Poverty, the Scottish Government’s Defining Mission: Amendment 1

Submitted by: Mark Griffin, Central Scot and Lothians West, Scottish Labour

Date lodged: Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Motion reference: S7M-01022.1

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, September 3, 2026

Supported by: Paul Sweeney

Result 35 for, 68 against, 9 abstained, 17 did not vote Disagreed

Eradicating Child Poverty, the Scottish Government’s Defining Mission: Amendment 3

Submitted by: James Adams, North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

Date lodged: Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Motion reference: S7M-01022.3

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, September 3, 2026

Eradicating Child Poverty, the Scottish Government’s Defining Mission: Amendment 4

Submitted by: Morven-May MacCallum, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats

Date lodged: Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Motion reference: S7M-01022.4

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, September 3, 2026

Result 59 for, 54 against, 0 abstained, 16 did not vote Agreed

Eradicating Child Poverty, the Scottish Government’s Defining Mission: Amendment 5

Submitted by: Julie MacDougall, Mid Scotland and Fife, Reform UK

Date lodged: Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Motion reference: S7M-01022.5

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, September 3, 2026

Result 21 for, 90 against, 0 abstained, 18 did not vote Disagreed