Tackling Child Poverty and Inequality Through the Scottish Budget - Amendment 4
Submitted by:
Russell Findlay,
West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.
Date lodged:
Monday, 06 January 2025
Motion reference: S6M-16003.4
Current status:Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, 07 January 2025
As an amendment to motion S6M-16003 in the name of John Swinney (Tackling Child Poverty and Inequality Through the Scottish Budget), leave out from “the investments” to end and insert “that the Scottish Government has failed to reduce child poverty during 17 years of Scottish National Party administration; recognises that the poverty-related attainment gap between the most and least deprived pupils has grown according to the most recent statistics and that the Scottish Government will fail to meet its previously stated target of closing that attainment gap by 2026; acknowledges that Scottish Government policies, which seek to take a more lenient approach to young offenders, have contributed to vulnerable young people in deprived communities being targeted by organised gangs to carry out criminality; believes that the draft Scottish Budget 2025-26 will continue to harm Scotland’s economic growth, which is desperately needed if the country is to tackle child poverty, and calls on the Scottish Government to rethink the draft 2025-26 Scottish Budget by providing workers and businesses across Scotland with a tax cut that will help induce the economic growth that Scotland needs.”
Vote
Result30 for, 92 against, 0 abstained, 7 did not voteVote Defeated