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Citizens Advice Scotland's Report, Living At The Sharp End

EDM number 391 in 2016-17, proposed by Eilidh Whiteford on 05/09/2016.
Categorised under the topics of Incomes and poverty and Voluntary organisations.

That this House welcomes Citizens Advice Scotland's report, entitled Living at the Sharp End, which analyses the causes and impact of periods of no income for Citizen Advice Bureaux clients in Scotland, and notes that such periods are most often caused by issues caused by the Government's regressive austerity-fuelled welfare cuts, including system failures within the Department for Work and Pensions on processing times, issues with the lack of eligibility for benefits during a reconsideration and benefit sanctions; further notes that young people, those unable to work due to ill health and those with a disability are disproportionately affected by acute deprivation of income; stresses that austerity does not work and urges the Government urgently to address the failing sanction regime and proactively work across all sectors to tackle the root causes of poverty rather than working in reverse inadequately to plug the gaps of its failing social policies.

This motion has been signed by a total of 46 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Eilidh Whiteford05/09/2016Banff and BuchanScottish National PartyProposed
Neil Gray05/09/2016Airdrie and ShottsScottish National PartySeconded
Ian Blackford05/09/2016Ross, Skye and LochaberScottish National PartySeconded
Corri Wilson05/09/2016Ayr, Carrick and CumnockScottish National PartySeconded
Mhairi Black05/09/2016Paisley and Renfrewshire SouthScottish National PartySeconded
Chris Stephens05/09/2016Glasgow South WestScottish National PartySeconded
Chris Law05/09/2016Dundee WestScottish National PartySigned
Richard Arkless05/09/2016Dumfries and GallowayScottish National PartySigned
Anne McLaughlin05/09/2016Glasgow North EastScottish National PartySigned
Carol Monaghan05/09/2016Glasgow North WestScottish National PartySigned
Brendan O'Hara05/09/2016Argyll and ButeScottish National PartySigned
Deidre Brock05/09/2016Edinburgh North and LeithScottish National PartySigned
Phil Boswell05/09/2016Coatbridge, Chryston and BellshillScottish National PartySigned
Calum Kerr05/09/2016Berwickshire, Roxburgh and SelkirkScottish National PartySigned
Callum McCaig05/09/2016Aberdeen SouthScottish National PartySigned
Marion Fellows05/09/2016Motherwell and WishawScottish National PartySigned
Joanna Cherry05/09/2016Edinburgh South WestScottish National PartySigned
Owen Thompson05/09/2016MidlothianScottish National PartySigned
Peter Grant05/09/2016GlenrothesScottish National PartySigned
Kirsten Oswald05/09/2016East RenfrewshireScottish National PartySigned
Philippa Whitford05/09/2016Central AyrshireScottish National PartySigned
John McNally05/09/2016FalkirkScottish National PartySigned
Martyn Day05/09/2016Linlithgow and East FalkirkScottish National PartySigned
Martin Docherty05/09/2016West DunbartonshireScottish National PartySigned
Paul Monaghan05/09/2016Caithness, Sutherland and Easter RossScottish National PartySigned
Ronnie Cowan05/09/2016InverclydeScottish National PartySigned
Roger Mullin05/09/2016Kirkcaldy and CowdenbeathScottish National PartySigned
Tommy Sheppard05/09/2016Edinburgh EastScottish National PartySigned
Gavin Newlands05/09/2016Paisley and Renfrewshire NorthScottish National PartySigned
Alan Brown05/09/2016Kilmarnock and LoudounScottish National PartySigned
Stuart Donaldson05/09/2016West Aberdeenshire and KincardineScottish National PartySigned
Patricia Gibson05/09/2016North Ayrshire and ArranScottish National PartySigned
Kirsty Blackman05/09/2016Aberdeen NorthScottish National PartySigned
Margaret Ferrier05/09/2016Rutherglen and Hamilton WestScottish National PartySigned
Michael Weir06/09/2016AngusScottish National PartySigned
Alison Thewliss07/09/2016Glasgow CentralScottish National PartySigned
Patrick Grady07/09/2016Glasgow NorthScottish National PartySigned
Alex Salmond07/09/2016Signed
Stewart McDonald12/09/2016Glasgow SouthScottish National PartySigned
Tasmina Sheikh10/10/2016Ochil and South PerthshireScottish National PartySigned
Steven Paterson10/10/2016StirlingScottish National PartySigned
Angus MacNeil10/10/2016Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySigned
Drew Hendry10/10/2016Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and StrathspeyScottish National PartySigned
Hannah Bardell10/10/2016LivingstonScottish National PartySigned
Angela Crawley11/10/2016Lanark and Hamilton EastScottish National PartySigned
John Nicolson24/10/2016East DunbartonshireScottish National PartySigned

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