Living Wage

As an amendment to motion S4M-09740 in the name of James Kelly (Living Wage), insert at end "; welcomes the UK Government’s decision to increase the national minimum wage (NMW) from October 2014; further welcomes that the UK Government accepted in full the Low Pay Commission's recommendations, including plans for bigger increases to the NMW in the future than have occurred in recent years; notes that a worker on the adult NMW working a 36-hour week, 52 weeks a year, will receive £355 a year more in their pay packet; welcomes the increase in the income tax personal allowance to £10,000 in 2014-15; notes that the UK Government’s policy on income tax has lifted 224,000 of the lowest earners in Scotland out of income tax altogether, with over two million people benefiting from a tax cut, and supports plans to increase the personal allowance to £12,500 in the next UK parliamentary term."