Keeping the Lifeline - A Call to Cancel the Cut to Universal Credit: The Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government (Shona Robison) moved S6M-01405—That the Parliament agrees, along with opposition parties in the UK Parliament, that the UK Government's planned reduction to universal credit should be reversed; recognises the cross-party efforts of opposition parties in the UK Parliament and the social security committees of each of the four nations' parliaments and assembly in this aim; notes Scottish Government analysis that the reduction of universal credit could reduce welfare expenditure in Scotland by £461 million a year by 2023-24 and push 60,000 people, including 20,000 children, into poverty; agrees that the inadequacy of the payment is just one of many...