Housing Benefit Reform

As an amendment to motion S4M-02407 in the name of Keith Brown (Housing Benefit Reform), leave out from “that will" to end and insert "; acknowledges the lobbying efforts of Scottish stakeholders that helped secure additional transitional support for households affected by the benefit cap and for foster families and disabled people living in adapted properties affected by changes to under-occupancy rules; further notes that, despite its support for welfare reform, the SNP administration has so far provided no clear view on the reforms that it wishes to see; recognises that SNP MPs did not feel the need to table amendments to the parts of the Welfare Reform Bill dealing with housing benefit reform; believes that Scottish tenants and prospective tenants have not been well served by the Scottish Government’s decision to abandon the SNP manifesto promise to build 6,000 socially rented houses every year and, instead, adopt a plan that involves an element of private purchase, and considers that the Scottish Government should devote its effort to meeting its manifesto promise on building 6,000 houses for social rent each year."