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Child Poverty Strategy

Child Poverty Strategy

The following extract is from the statement on the child poverty strategy on 8 December 2025.

I warmly welcome the publication of the child poverty strategy, in particular the lifting of the two-child benefit cap, which will lift 1,560 children in Paisley and Renfrewshire South out of poverty. But 100,000 children in Scotland remain stuck in homelessness accommodation, and that is on the SNP’s watch; it has control of that in the Scottish Government.

[Official Report, 8 December 2025; Vol. 777, c. 68.]

Written correction submitted by the hon. Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire South (Johanna Baxter):

[Official Report, 8 December 2025; Vol. 777, c. 68.]

Written correction submitted by the hon. Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire South (Johanna Baxter):

I warmly welcome the publication of the child poverty strategy, in particular the lifting of the two-child benefit cap, which will lift 1,560 children in Paisley and Renfrewshire South out of poverty. But 10,000 children in Scotland remain stuck in homelessness accommodation, and that is on the SNP’s watch; it has control of that in the Scottish Government.

The following extract is from the statement on the child poverty strategy on 8 December 2025.

I warmly welcome the publication of the child poverty strategy, in particular the lifting of the two-child benefit cap, which will lift 1,560 children in Paisley and Renfrewshire South out of poverty. But 100,000 children in Scotland remain stuck in homelessness accommodation, and that is on the SNP’s watch; it has control of that in the Scottish Government.

[Official Report, 8 December 2025; Vol. 777, c. 68.]

Written correction submitted by the hon. Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire South (Johanna Baxter):

[Official Report, 8 December 2025; Vol. 777, c. 68.]

Written correction submitted by the hon. Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire South (Johanna Baxter):

I warmly welcome the publication of the child poverty strategy, in particular the lifting of the two-child benefit cap, which will lift 1,560 children in Paisley and Renfrewshire South out of poverty. But 10,000 children in Scotland remain stuck in homelessness accommodation, and that is on the SNP’s watch; it has control of that in the Scottish Government.