Creating a Fairer Scotland, Our Disability Delivery Plan

As an amendment to motion S5M-02948 in the name of Jeane Freeman (Creating a Fairer Scotland, Our Disability Delivery Plan), insert at end “; recognises that the new Scottish social security system will be a vital tool to ensure that disabled people have independence, decent incomes and fairer working lives; further recognises that two fifths of people in poverty live in a household with at least one disabled person and that the costs associated with a disability can average £550 per month, and agrees that new disability benefits powers will give the Parliament and the Scottish Government both the substantial responsibility and opportunity to support Scotland’s disabled people by halting and reversing the worst effects of Tory social security cuts, under a system that is based on the principles of dignity and respect.”