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Petition Summary
Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to use its powers under the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 to introduce an automatic Scottish top-up payment that fully mitigates the UK Government’s reduction of the Universal Credit LCWRA element for new claimants in Scotland from 6 April 2026..
This related in particular to the competing priorities of protecting consumers and small businesses and improving their access to credit. As noted in the section on information requirements for the registers, there was also uncertainty about how the registers would operate in practice.
Bail, Release from custody, DWP, housing, work coach, universal credit, job centre.
Department of Work and Pensions Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill Response.
Purpose of the Bill
The purpose of the Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Bill ('the Bill') is to make financing a business easier by modernising the law covering how moveable property can be used to access credit. It would do this in two ways:
Assignation is the way in which ownership of a claim (usually a claim to be paid money) is transferred.
The guarantee fund will provide guarantees to the EIB and EIF to reimburse any possible losses incurred for included operations. By pooling credit risk across all of the European Union, the overall average cost of the fund will be significantly reduced, compared to national schemes.
The selected scenarios are:
Reducing income tax in Scotland
Increasing child benefit
Changing the child-related elements of Universal Credit (UC)
For each scenario, the following questions were considered:
What would be the impact on child poverty of spending a specific amount on a given policy?