Motion
Budget Priorities 2025-26
S6M-14825.2 · Amendment · lodged by Fraser, Murdo
Lodged on
08 Oct 2024Heard / answered on
09 Oct 2024Watch the chamber session on SPTV · lands on the meetings recorded on 09 Oct 2024
As an amendment to motion S6M-14825 in the name of Ross Greer (Budget Priorities 2025-26), leave out from "notes" to end and insert "agrees that the fiscal levers currently available to the Scottish Government are more than adequate to deliver the economic growth that is vital to sustain public services; recognises that the current fiscal settlement, provided by the former UK Conservative administration, is the most generous on record, and that the Scottish Government has failed to properly utilise the monies allocated to it, by instead choosing to prioritise wasteful projects, such as the National Care Service; notes that the Scottish Government’s financial incompetence, which was exacerbated by the former Bute House Agreement with the Scottish Green Party, has resulted in Scotland becoming a high-tax, low-growth economy that has lost the confidence of the business sector and has resulted in severe public sector spending cuts to fix the Scottish Government’s financial black hole, and urges the Scottish Government to show some common sense and ignore the economic and financial illiteracy proposed by the Scottish Green Party, which proposes yet more burdensome taxation and anti-growth regulations, and to use the generous fiscal powers that it already has to deliver a Budget that prioritises economic growth and provides for all of Scotland."
Lodged by
Fraser, Murdo
alone — no additional MSPs have signed on.
Amendment division result
09 Oct 2024
Defeated
Show MSPs
For
27Against
89Abstain
0Not voted
13In the Official Report
Debated in chamber — 3 contributions reference this
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Murdo Fraser
Con
Chamber
· 09 Oct 2024 · Meeting of the Parliament 09 October 2024
I have only four minutes, and I have a lot more to say. I am sorry. Scotland is forecast to have the fifth-lowest gross domestic product growth of any UK region. We lag behind the rest of the UK in…
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The Presiding Officer
NPA
Chamber
· 09 Oct 2024 · Meeting of the Parliament 09 October 2024
I remind members that, if the amendment in the name of Murdo Fraser is agreed to, the amendment in the name of Michael Marra will fall. The question is, that amendment S6M-14825.2, in the name of Mur…
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The Presiding Officer
NPA
Chamber
· 09 Oct 2024 · Meeting of the Parliament 09 October 2024
The result of the division on amendment S6M-14825.2, in the name of Murdo Fraser, is: For 27, Against 89, Abstentions 0. Amendment disagreed to.
Amendments and how the chamber decided
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S6M-14825Original motion07 Oct 2024 · Motion For Debate · Greer, RossThat the Parliament notes that the fiscal levers that are currently available to the Scottish Government are inadequate to fully protect public services and communities from UK Government austerity and economic turmoil, but that the Scottish Government must use every power at its disposal to address the urgent social, economic and environmental chall...
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S6M-14825.2Selected itemDefeated 27/8908 Oct 2024 · Amendment · Fraser, MurdoAs an amendment to motion S6M-14825 in the name of Ross Greer (Budget Priorities 2025-26), leave out from "notes" to end and insert "agrees that the fiscal levers currently available to the Scottish Government are more than adequate to deliver the economic growth that is vital to sustain public services; recognises that the c...