Controlling the Rising Benefits Bill in Scotland
The result of the division on motion S6M-20056, in the name of Alexander Stewart, on controlling the rising benefits bill in Scotland, as amended, is: For 72, Against 29, Abstentions 21.
Motion, as amended, agreed to,
That the Parliament reaffirms its commitment to the social security principles contained in the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 and unanimously adopted by the Parliament, including that social security is an investment in the people of Scotland and is itself a human right; welcomes the abolition of the two-child limit across the UK; calls on the UK Labour administration to go further and scrap other damaging welfare reforms implemented by the previous UK administration, including the benefit cap, and supports the Scottish Government's commitment to reinvest funding to end the two-child limit in further measures to tackle child poverty in Scotland.