Motion
Challenge Poverty Week
S6M-14820.3 · Amendment · lodged by Sarwar, Anas
Lodged on
07 Oct 2024Heard / answered on
08 Oct 2024Watch the chamber session on SPTV · lands on the meetings recorded on 08 Oct 2024
As an amendment to motion S6M-14820 in the name of John Swinney (Challenge Poverty Week), leave out from "agrees" to end and insert "regrets that poverty levels in Scotland are still far too high, with 30,000 more children in Scotland living in poverty compared with 2007; recognises the need to support vulnerable people through the cost of living crisis and over winter with energy bills; welcomes, therefore, the announcement by the UK Government to extend the Household Support Fund, which will deliver an estimated £41 million in Barnett consequential funding, and calls on the Scottish Government to use this funding to deliver a package of support to help low-income pensioners and households by re-establishing the Fuel Insecurity Fund; considers that reducing poverty in the long term will require action across all of the themes of Challenge Poverty Week, as supported by hundreds of anti-poverty charities and third sector organisations across Scotland, and believes that this will require progress in all of the areas of policy that have been devolved to the Scottish Parliament, including ending the housing and homelessness emergency, improving health and education outcomes, making transport more accessible, supporting people into work and creating good, well-paid jobs in all parts of the country."
Lodged by
Sarwar, Anas
alone — no additional MSPs have signed on.
Amendment division result
08 Oct 2024
Defeated
Show MSPs
For
16Against
96Abstain
0Not voted
17In the Official Report
Debated in chamber — 3 contributions reference this
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Anas Sarwar
Lab
Chamber
· 08 Oct 2024 · Meeting of the Parliament 08 October 2024
I am conscious of time, First Minister. Many of those areas are the full responsibility of the Scottish Government, which has failed to take meaningful action. You cannot tackle poverty if people d…
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The Presiding Officer
NPA
Chamber
· 08 Oct 2024 · Meeting of the Parliament 08 October 2024
The next question is, that amendment S6M-14820.3, in the name of Anas Sarwar, which seeks to amend motion S6M-14820, in the name of John Swinney, on challenge poverty week, be agreed to. Are we agree…
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The Presiding Officer
NPA
Chamber
· 08 Oct 2024 · Meeting of the Parliament 08 October 2024
The result of the division on amendment S6M-14820.3, in the name of Anas Sarwar, is: For 16, Against 96, Abstentions 0. Amendment disagreed to.
Amendments and how the chamber decided
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S6M-14820Original motion07 Oct 2024 · Motion For Debate · Swinney, JohnThat the Parliament agrees in this Challenge Poverty Week that the UK Government must reverse the introduction of means testing for the Winter Fuel Payment.
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S6M-14820.3Selected itemDefeated 16/9607 Oct 2024 · Amendment · Sarwar, AnasAs an amendment to motion S6M-14820 in the name of John Swinney (Challenge Poverty Week), leave out from "agrees" to end and insert "regrets that poverty levels in Scotland are still far too high, with 30,000 more children in Scotland living in poverty compared with 2007; recognises the need to support vulnerable people through the cost of living crisis a...