Welfare

As an amendment to motion S4M-01777 in the name of Nicola Sturgeon (Welfare), leave out from first “notes” to end and insert “supports the UK Government’s welfare reform, which seeks to simplify the welfare system, make it more accessible and make work pay; notes that welfare budgets continue to rise in response to need; supports the UK Government’s commitment to provide better standards of living for people on lower incomes by taking 242,000 Scots out of income tax altogether, and calls on the Scottish Government to provide a detailed cost and funding analysis of its own welfare proposals before the referendum in September.”