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2016-17
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Basic Income
Caroline Lucas
2016-06-08
That this House notes the growing crisis of low pay and precarity in a labour market increasingly characterised by casualised forms of employment, such as zero-hours contracts that offer little in the way of pay, predictable hours or long-term security; further notes the evident inability of our bureaucratic and costly social security system, with its dependence on means-testing and often arbitrary sanctions, to provide an adequate income floor; believes that a Universal Basic Income, an unconditional, non-withdrawable income paid to everyone has the potential to offer genuine social security to all while boosting entrepreneurialism and the creation of small businesses; welcomes the ongoing exploration of the concept of such a Basic Income by the think tank Compass, the Royal Society of the Arts, the Citizen's Income Trust and others; further welcomes the planned practical experiments in Finland, the Netherlands and Canada; and calls on the Government to fund and commission further research into the possibilities offered by the various Basic Income models, their feasibility, their potential to guarantee additional help for those who need it most and how the complex economic and social challenges of introducing a Basic Income might be met.
Incomes and poverty
Caroline Lucas
2016-06-08
Proposed
Brighton, Pavilion
Green
Neil Gray
2016-06-08
Seconded
Airdrie and Shotts
Scottish National Party
Rupa Huq
2016-06-08
Seconded
Ealing Central and Acton
Labour
Jonathan Edwards
2016-06-08
Seconded
Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
Plaid Cymru
Margaret Ritchie
2016-06-08
Seconded
South Down
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Angela Crawley
2016-06-08
Seconded
Lanark and Hamilton East
Scottish National Party
Ronnie Cowan
2016-06-09
Signed
Inverclyde
Scottish National Party
Mark Durkan
2016-06-09
Signed
Foyle
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Alison Thewliss
2016-06-13
Signed
Glasgow Central
Scottish National Party
Martyn Day
2016-06-13
Signed
Linlithgow and East Falkirk
Scottish National Party
Chris Stephens
2016-06-13
Signed
Glasgow South West
Scottish National Party
Paul Monaghan
2016-06-13
Signed
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Scottish National Party
Angus MacNeil
2016-06-13
Signed
Na h-Eileanan an Iar
Scottish National Party
Martin Docherty
2016-06-13
Signed
West Dunbartonshire
Scottish National Party
Mhairi Black
2016-06-13
Signed
Paisley and Renfrewshire South
Scottish National Party
Alan Meale
2016-06-13
Signed
Mansfield
Labour
Callum McCaig
2016-06-13
Signed
Aberdeen South
Scottish National Party
Tommy Sheppard
2016-06-13
Signed
Edinburgh East
Scottish National Party
Ronnie Campbell
2016-06-13
Signed
Blyth Valley
Labour
Margaret Ferrier
2016-06-13
Signed
Rutherglen and Hamilton West
Scottish National Party
Liz Saville Roberts
2016-06-14
Signed
Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Plaid Cymru
Stuart Donaldson
2016-06-14
Signed
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
Scottish National Party
Patrick Grady
2016-06-14
Signed
Glasgow North
Scottish National Party
Natalie McGarry
2016-06-14
Signed
Glasgow East
Scottish National Party
Alasdair McDonnell
2016-06-15
Signed
Belfast South
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Stephen Gethins
2016-06-15
Signed
North East Fife
Scottish National Party
Roger Godsiff
2016-06-15
Signed
Birmingham, Hall Green
Labour
George Kerevan
2016-06-15
Signed
East Lothian
Scottish National Party
John Nicolson
2016-06-20
Signed
East Dunbartonshire
Scottish National Party
Joanna Cherry
2016-06-20
Signed
Edinburgh South West
Scottish National Party
Drew Hendry
2016-06-27
Signed
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
Scottish National Party
Alan Brown
2016-06-27
Signed
Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Scottish National Party
Tasmina Sheikh
2016-07-04
Signed
Ochil and South Perthshire
Scottish National Party
Phil Boswell
2016-07-13
Signed
Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
Scottish National Party
Yasmin Qureshi
2016-07-19
Signed
Bolton South East
Labour
David Crausby
2016-10-13
Signed
Bolton North East
Labour
Carol Monaghan
2016-12-07
Signed
Glasgow North West
Scottish National Party
Stewart McDonald
2017-02-01
Signed
Glasgow South
Scottish National Party