Kenneth Macintosh
Labour
There are three questions to be put as a result of today’s business. I remind members that if the amendment in the name of Adam Tomkins is agreed to, the amendment in the name of Alex Rowley will fall.
The first question is, that amendment S5M-05594.2, in the name of Adam Tomkins, which seeks to amend motion S5M-05594, in the name of Jeane Freeman, on a fairer Scotland for disabled people, be agreed to. Are we agreed?
The Presiding Officer:
There will be a division.
Division number 1
Decision Time
The Presiding Officer:
The result of the division is: For 25, Against 74, Abstentions 0.
Amendment disagreed to.
The next question is, that amendment S5M-05594.1, in the name of Alex Rowley, which seeks to amend motion S5M-05594.1, in the name of Jeane Freeman, on a fairer Scotland for disabled people, be agreed to. Are we agreed?
The Presiding Officer:
There will be a division.
Division number 2
Decision Time
The Presiding Officer:
The result of the division is: For 74, Against 25, Abstentions 0.
Amendment agreed to.
The final question is, that motion S5M-05594, in the name of Jeane Freeman, on a fairer Scotland for disabled people, as amended, be agreed to. Are we agreed?
The Presiding Officer:
There will be a division.
Division number 3
Decision Time
The Presiding Officer:
The result of the division is: For 74, Against 25, Abstentions 0.
Motion, as amended, agreed to,
That the Parliament recognises the valuable contribution that disabled people make to Scottish society and Scotland as a whole; acknowledges that transformational change is needed in order for disabled people to realise their full potential; agrees that this can be achieved by working with disabled people and their organisations and therefore supports the co-production approach and actions set out in
A Fairer Scotland for Disabled People: Our Delivery Plan to 2021 for the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
; recognises the Scottish Government’s commitment to implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities so that disabled people in Scotland can exercise all of their human rights; notes the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ report in 2016, which found evidence of grave and systematic violations of disabled people’s rights by the UK Government’s welfare reforms; is particularly concerned at the Equalities and Human Rights Commission’s findings that these welfare reforms imposed by the Conservative administration have resulted in a ‘particularly disproportionate, cumulative impact on the rights to independent living and an adequate standard of living for disabled people’, and condemns these cuts, which have caused major harm to the rights of disabled people
