Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament (Hybrid) 09 February 2022
09 Feb 2022 · S6 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Parliamentary Bureau Motions
I agree, and we heard as much in the Social Justice and Social Security Committee.
In 2017, in response to Scottish Labour’s call for assurances that the system would be ambitious and would not have the same effect as personal independence payments rules had, the then Minister for Social Security said:
“The Scottish Government does not intend to replicate UK Government legislation within our social security”.—[Written Answers, 17 March 2017; S5W-07672.]
Five years later, we are being asked to vote for underwhelming rules and to trust that something better is coming. Disabled people have already waited years on a promise on which the regulations do not deliver.
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- S5W-07672 Question
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The Presiding Officer (Alison Johnstone)
NPA
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The Presiding Officer
NPA
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Pam Duncan-Glancy (Glasgow) (Lab)
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Jeremy Balfour (Lothian) (Con)
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Pam Duncan-Glancy
Lab
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Elena Whitham (Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) (SNP)
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Pam Duncan-Glancy
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The Minister for Social Security and Local Government (Ben Macpherson)
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Jeremy Balfour
Con
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Ben Macpherson
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The Presiding Officer
NPA
The questions on the motions will be put at decision time. I am minded to take a motion without notice to bring forward decision time. Motion moved, That...