UK Government Budget

As an amendment to motion S4M-02494 in the name of John Swinney (UK Government Budget), leave out from “welcomes” to end and insert "believes that the Chancellor should be doing more to create jobs across the UK; is disappointed that working families with children are still set to lose tax credits and child benefit as well as being hit by increases in VAT; believes that, rather than reducing taxes on those earning more than £150,000, measures such as a cut in VAT would be fairer on hard-pressed families and working people and would do more to stimulate the economy, and calls on the Scottish Government to do more using the powers and spending at its disposal to tackle unemployment, which is higher in Scotland than the rest of the UK, and to help local businesses including through the use of community benefit clauses for public sector contracts."