MSPs have called on the UK Government to scrap the two-child benefit cap following a heated debate in the Scottish Parliament ...
MSPs have called on the UK Government to scrap the two-child benefit cap following a heated debate in the Scottish Parliament.
“There are calls from other parties for the Scottish Government to mitigate the two-child cap,” Somerville said.“So while Universal Credit and child tax credits remain reserved to Westminster, this is the situation we are in. The Social Justice Secretary added that it was “galling” that the investment made by the Scottish Government was “lessened” by policies of thePaul O’Kane, Scottish Labour MSP for West Scotland region, said that tackling poverty should be the focus of “far more” of the time inO'Kane claimed that the Scottish Government should have held a “much wider debate about all the roots and facets of poverty”.
It passed with 75 votes for, 28 against, and three abstentions, and was added on to the end of Somerville's motion. She said: “We continue to spend so much of our time fighting and funding policy decisions imposed on us by agovernment – the Tories two-child benefit cap and wilder welfare policy has driven up to 30,000 children into poverty in Scotland.”We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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