UK Government Welfare Reforms
Submitted by:
Shirley-Anne Somerville
Date lodged:
Thursday, 17 April 2025
Motion reference: S6M-17242
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, 23 April 2025
That the Parliament calls on the UK Labour administration to immediately scrap its damaging social security reforms, as announced in the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper ; highlights the UK Government’s own impact analysis, which shows that 250,000 people, including 50,000 children, will be pushed into poverty under these plans, and notes the Resolution Foundation’s report that lower-income households are set to become £500 a year poorer, following the UK Government’s Spring Statement 2025.
Supported by:
Paul McLennan, Kaukab Stewart
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73 for, 40 against, 0 abstained, 15 did not vote
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Scottish National Party
59 for
0 against
0 abstained
2 did not vote
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Adam, George
Adam, Karen
Adamson, Clare
Allan, Dr Alasdair
Arthur, Tom
Beattie, Colin
Brown, Siobhian
Callaghan, Stephanie
Coffey, Willie
Constance, Angela
Dey, Graeme
Don-Innes, Natalie
Doris, Bob
Dornan, James
Dunbar, Jackie
Ewing, Annabelle
Fairlie, Jim
FitzPatrick, Joe
Forbes, Kate
Gibson, Kenneth
Gilruth, Jenny
Gougeon, Mairi
Grahame, Christine
Gray, Neil
Harper, Emma
Haughey, Clare
Hepburn, Jamie
Hyslop, Fiona
Kidd, Bill
Lochhead, Richard
MacDonald, Gordon
MacGregor, Fulton
Mackay, Rona
Macpherson, Ben
Maguire, Ruth
Martin, Gillian
Matheson, Michael
McAllan, Màiri
McKee, Ivan
McLennan, Paul
McMillan, Stuart
McNair, Marie
Minto, Jenni
Nicoll, Audrey
Robertson, Angus
Robison, Shona
Roddick, Emma
Somerville, Shirley-Anne
Stevenson, Collette
Stewart, Kaukab
Stewart, Kevin
Sturgeon, Nicola
Swinney, John
Thomson, Michelle
Todd, Maree
Torrance, David
Tweed, Evelyn
Whitham, Elena
Yousaf, Humza
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Brown, Keith
Ewing, Fergus
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Balfour, Jeremy
Briggs, Miles
Burnett, Alexander
Carlaw, Jackson
Carson, Finlay
Dowey, Sharon
Eagle, Tim
Findlay, Russell
Fraser, Murdo
Gallacher, Meghan
Golden, Maurice
Gosal, Pam
Gulhane, Sandesh
Hamilton, Rachael
Hoy, Craig
Kerr, Liam
Kerr, Stephen
Lumsden, Douglas
McCall, Roz
Ross, Douglas
Simpson, Graham
Smith, Liz
Stewart, Alexander
Webber, Sue
White, Tess
Whittle, Brian
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Halcro Johnston, Jamie
Mountain, Edward
Mundell, Oliver
Wells, Annie
Scottish Labour
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Baillie, Jackie
Baker, Claire
Bibby, Neil
Boyack, Sarah
Choudhury, Foysol
Duncan-Glancy, Pam
Grant, Rhoda
Griffin, Mark
Johnson, Daniel
Marra, Michael
O'Kane, Paul
Smyth, Colin
Sweeney, Paul
Whitfield, Martin
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Clark, Katy
Lennon, Monica
Leonard, Richard
McNeill, Pauline
Mochan, Carol
Rowley, Alex
Sarwar, Anas
Villalba, Mercedes
Scottish Green Party
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Burgess, Ariane
Chapman, Maggie
Greer, Ross
Harvie, Patrick
Mackay, Gillian
Ruskell, Mark
Slater, Lorna
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Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Cole-Hamilton, Alex
Greene, Jamie
McArthur, Liam
Rennie, Willie
Wishart, Beatrice
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Alba Party
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Amendments that have not been voted on
Motion ref. S6M-17242.1
Submitted by: Paul O'Kane, West Scotland, Scottish Labour, Date lodged: Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Motion ref. S6M-17242.2
Submitted by: Maggie Chapman, North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party, Date lodged: Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Motion ref. S6M-17242.3
Submitted by: Liz Smith, Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date lodged: Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Supported by: Roz McCall