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The UK Government’s Autumn Budget Statement and the Scottish Economy

S4M-01501.3 · decided 07 Dec 2011 · lodged by Baker, Richard · session S4

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Defeated 36/83

As an amendment to motion S4M-01501 in the name of John Swinney (The UK Government's Autumn Statement and the Scottish Economy), leave out from first "supports" to end and insert "calls on the UK Government to confer borrowing powers on the Scottish Government from April 2012 to allow for an expanded capital infrastructure programme; notes the publication of the Scottish Government’s Infrastructure Investment Plan 2011; urges the Scottish Government to provide milestones for each infrastructure project to ensure that the list of delayed infrastructure projects does not grow longer; notes that Scotland’s economic growth over the last 12 months has been disappointing despite economic growth being the stated purpose of the Scottish Government; calls on the Scottish Government to ensure that the measures in the Scottish budget support economic recovery to improve Scotland’s growth rate; to this end, urges the Scottish Government to reconsider the significant cuts that it has made to the affordable housing and further education budgets; notes that disposable household income has fallen by 2.3% this year, a post-war record, and is forecast to fall again next year, which coincides with public sector workers in Scotland and the rest of the UK having to pay more in pension contributions; notes that the Chancellor has outlined a further two years of spending cuts and that the proposed six years of cuts in spending are unprecedented, and regrets that the actions of the UK Government will lead to an increase in child poverty.