Michael Shanks MP welcomed the chancellor’s announcement after some 'tough choices'
Rutherglen MP Michael Shanks says the UK Government’s autumn budget announcement will result in billions of pounds more for public services in Scotland.
“This first Labour budget has set out how we deliver the change we offered at the election – protecting working people, funding public services and investing in the country’s future,” said Shanks.Get all the news from your area – as well as features, entertainment, sport and the latest on Lanarkshire’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic – straight to your fingertips, 24/7.
However, Rutherglen MSP Clare Haughey claims the budget, “fails to deliver the transformative change Labour promised people in Scotland” and highlighted the increase in employers’ national insurance contributions from 13.8 per cent to 15 per cent, as well as the reaction of leading anti-poverty charities such at The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Save the Children, and Child Poverty Action Group.
“However, there remains significant uncertainty on the impact changes to National Insurance will have on public sector organisations who may have to use their already stretched funding to cover increased taxes. This is money that could cost our NHS, schools, police, and local government hundreds of millions of pounds.
Whilst in opposition, Labour promised to deliver justice for the estimated 3.6 million women affected by the change in state pension age but the issue wasn’t mentioned during the chancellor’s speech. “The UK Government now have to find a simple and satisfactory solution to compensate across the different age groups.”
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