Oeddech chi'n golygu to child benefit can?
Wendy Chamberlain: Figures from the Trussell Trust show that food bank usage is at its highest ever level, and over the summer months a record 41,878 parcels of food were provided to 21,000 children in Scotland alone. Meanwhile, child poverty costs the Government £39 billion per year in poor health and educational outcomes. In order to tackle child poverty properly, will the Government commit to keeping...
the Bishop of Durham: ...-term decisions to build a better future for the country. I confess that I am struggling to see much evidence of that plan. To think truly long-term about our country’s future, it is vital that children and families and the environment are at the heart of every policy, particularly from the Treasury. Without prioritising investing in children, what hope is there of moulding citizens who...
Baroness Twycross: ...the Government are “continuing to roll out our mental health support teams in schools and colleges across the country so that 50 per cent of pupils are covered by 2025”. Place2Be, a leading children’s mental health charity in schools, is clear that by intervening early we can help prevent problems becoming more serious. How, then, is 50% cover by 2025 acceptable? Pupil absences are...
George Adam: ...are 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...
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...
Two-child Benefit Cap
Alison Johnstone: ...question 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: ...Bureau 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...
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: ...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: ...Government 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...
...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: ...that we are building a fairer and greener economy for Scotland. Nowhere is that clearer than in the support that is given to the renewables industry. When the Scottish Greens joined the Government, two years ago, one of the first tasks that we threw ourselves into was the reform of the national planning framework. One common point of feedback that we hear from businesses in the renewables...
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: ...in 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...
