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George Adam: ...responsible for such decisions. In fact, nuclear weapons were the subject of a members’ business debate just last week. On 4 October, the Government lodged a debate on the UK Government’s two-child benefit cap. Members of the Scottish Labour Party and the Scottish Conservative Party took part in that debate without raising any issues about the reserved nature of the topic. Some members...
Humza Yousaf: ...seek to expand that. However, we know that we still have significant challenges around poverty in Scotland. It is due to the Scottish Government’s actions, including the game-changing Scottish child payment, that an estimated 90,000 children will be lifted out of poverty this year. Instead of our having to continually mitigate the harm from Westminster—such as from the two-child limit,...
Jenni Minto: ...co-located specialist services so that they can get the best chance in life. We need to join up our policies and services, building a more strategic approach that is centred around the needs of children and families. That will build on so many examples of great collaboration, from the wonderfully fun bookbug sessions to the valuable and crucial care that we provide through our universal...
The Presiding Officer: The result of the division is: For 63, Against 51, Abstentions 0. Motion agreed to, That the Parliament recognises the need for an Early Child Development Transformational Change programme to build on the excellent and world-leading practice already delivered in Scotland, and to further act on the unique and critical period of child development from pre-pregnancy to...
Amanda Solloway: ...usage. The typical household was therefore paying £2,500 a year for its energy when prices were at their highest, between October 2022 and June 2023. To put that in context, the Ofgem price cap reached £4,279 for quarter 1 of 2023, which is what a typical household would have paid for its energy had the Government not intervened. Alongside the EPG, the energy bills support scheme...
Guy Opperman: The amount that can be deducted is capped and we have lowered the standard cap on deductions from Universal Credit twice over recent years, firstly from 40% to 30% in October 2019 and then to 25% in April 2021. DWP takes every care to recover benefit debt without causing undue financial hardship. Deductions are made under legislation and cover a broad range of contingencies, like the recovery...
Two-child Benefit Cap
Alison Johnstone: ...is, that amendment S6M-10716.2, in the name of Miles Briggs, which seeks to amend motion S6M-10716, in the name of Shirley-Anne Somerville, on reversal of the United Kingdom Government’s two-child benefit cap, be agreed to. Are we agreed?
George Adam: ...Motions 2.00 pm Portfolio Questions: Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands; NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care followed by Scottish Government Debate: Reversal of the UK Government’s Two-child Benefit Cap followed by Legislative Consent Motion: Energy Bill - UK Legislation followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions followed by Approval of SSIs (if required)...
Beth Winter: ...her family, and we talked about her involvement with and advocacy on behalf of those suffering abuse, for whom she fought tirelessly. Ann’s opposition back in 1997 to the abolition of lone-parent benefits was something she spoke passionately about. She said at the time: “There is great concern in the Parliamentary Labour Party. Even people who voted with the government went into the...
Jenny Gilruth: We could all learn to be a little more circumspect and thoughtful in our use of social media. In particular, how and what adults say and do impacts on our children and young people. I understand that the tweets that Paul O’Kane alludes to have since been deleted, and that the member apologised at the time. I am intrigued by the care that Paul O’Kane appears to attach to one tweet from an...
Shirley-Anne Somerville: ...we have invested £17.2 million in the Aberdeen City Council region, through the Scottish welfare fund and discretionary housing payments, to mitigate, among other things, the bedroom tax, the benefit cap and the local housing allowance. Additional funding has been made available through universal credit Scottish choices and advice services. Some £11 million has also been provided through...
Shirley-Anne Somerville: ...face of that to make a difference. Despite the UK Government’s policies pushing people into poverty, we know that our action is still making a difference. Modelling estimates that 90,000 fewer children will live in relative and absolute poverty this year as a result of this Government’s policies, with our poverty level 9 percentage points lower than it would have been otherwise. That...
...notes the actions set out in the Programme for Government 2023-24 to build stronger communities, improve social justice, reduce inequalities, including in health and social care, and tackle child poverty; welcomes the investment of £5.3 billion in Scottish Government benefits in 2023-24, supporting over 1.2 million people, including £405 million for the Scottish Child Payment, which is...
Chris Law: ...mitigate against the cruellest of Westminster policies by spending £84 million on supporting hard-working families against the brutal bedroom tax and over £6.2 million on covering the two-child benefit cap. Astonishingly, we have learned over the summer that the Leader of the Opposition is an enthusiastic supporter of these Tory cruel welfare policies, with U-turn after U-turn from the...
...hungry. My first announcement today is therefore this: by February, we will remove income thresholds for our best start foods programme, which will mean that a further 20,000 pregnant mothers and children will benefit from financial support for milk and healthy food. That is a further demonstration of this Government giving our children the best possible start. We will also invest more...
Ross Greer: ..., will allow the sector to flourish or at least to undo the damage and job losses of the decade lost after David Cameron’s slashed support for solar back in 2012. However, maximising the economic benefits of the transition to net zero goes beyond jobs only in generation. We all acknowledge that Scotland has not yet fully benefited from the manufacturing and wider supply chains required...
Richard Thomson: A recent study by the University of York found that the two-child limit and the benefit cap had contributed to rising child poverty, which, allied to wider benefit cuts, had impacted larger families disproportionately. Given the growing weight of evidence that families are being pushed further into hardship, will the Government finally acknowledge the real harm that their cruel and callous...
Marion Fellows: ...Motherwell and Wishaw have a real sense of social justice, and want a fairer and more equal society—which, under continuous Tory Governments since 2015, has not happened. We have the heinous two-child benefit cap, we have been taken out of Europe against our will, and we have been subjected to increasing austerity and a huge increase in the cost of living, especially through the increase...
Guy Opperman: ...credit—was also raised by the hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mick Whitley). I respectfully reject that point. Disregarding what one thinks of this Government, under no circumstance could the legacy benefit system have coped with covid. Under no circumstance could it cope with and support the cost of living support that we are rolling out on an ongoing basis. Under no circumstance could it...
