Lowering Bills for Scotland’s Workers

As an amendment to motion S6M-20294 in the name of Craig Hoy (Lowering Bills for Scotland’s Workers), leave out from "calls" toend and insert "understands that the Scottish Government’s incompetent approach to the public finances andfailure to grow Scotland’s economy are leading to heightened budgetary pressures; further understands that income tax should not be used as a substitute foreconomic growth and believes that, given the pressure on household finances,income tax rates should not increase in the course of the next parliamentary session; welcomes the UK Labour administration’s Budget, which tackles the cost of living for households across Scotland by cuttingcosts on energy bills, lifting thousands of children out of poverty, andincreasing wages for hard-working people in Scotland, and believes that the Scottish Labour Party’s plan to establish a Scottish treasury with strategicoversight for spending in all Scottish Government departments is essential inorder to put an end to waste and ensure that taxpayers’ money is treated withrespect."