Ending Austerity, Poverty and Inequality - Amendment 4
Submitted by:
Aileen Campbell,
Clydesdale, Scottish National Party.
Date lodged:
Tuesday, 23 October 2018
Motion reference: S5M-14406.4
Current status:Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, 24 October 2018
As an amendment to S5M-14406 in the name of Elaine Smith (Ending Austerity, Poverty and Inequality), leave out from "understands" to end and insert "notes that the Scottish Government has used devolved powers to challenge and address root causes of poverty and inequality, including setting targets to help eradicate child poverty by 2030, fully mitigating the so-called bedroom tax, launching the Carer’s Allowance Supplement, extending access to free sanitary products, implementing recommendations from the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Group, increasing the Fair Food Fund and committing to a Disability Employment Action Plan; believes that UK Government policies are a significant driver of poverty and inequality, including welfare reforms that will lead to an annual cut to people in Scotland of £3.7 billion by 2020-21; calls on the UK Government to publish its analysis of the impact of Universal Credit on people’s incomes, and further calls on it to immediately halt the roll-out in Scotland and use the UK Budget to address its fundamental flaws, reinstating work allowances, reversing the two-child limit and lifting the benefits freeze."
Vote
Result61 for, 59 against, 0 abstained, 9 did not voteVote Passed