Delivering a Common Sense Budget for Scotland (Amendment 3)
S6M-15792.3: As an amendment to motion S6M-15792 in the name of Craig Hoy (Delivering a Common Sense Budget for Scotland), leave out from "believes" to end and insert "welcomes steps in the draft 2025-26 Budget to introduce a universal Winter Heating Payment and create the systems necessary to effectively scrap the two-child benefit cap in 2026, and looks forward to further engagement between the Scottish Government and the parties represented in the Parliament in advance of the next stage in the budget process."

Original motion(S6M-15792):
That the Parliament believes that the draft Scottish Budget 2025-26 will not deliver good value for taxpayers; notes its continuation of the Scottish National Partyadministration&rsquo;s high-tax agenda, which has damaged economic growth in Scotland; condemns funding for free bustravel for asylum seekers,&nbsp;which could have instead been used to provide6,600 pensioners in Scotland with a full Winter Heating Payment, and calls on the Scottish Government to cut income tax to 19% for those earningup to &pound;43,662, introduce full business rates relief for pubs and restaurantsacross Scotland for 2025-26, and raise the threshold at which house buyers pay residential Land andBuildings Transaction Tax to &pound;250,000.