SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn has demanded Scottish Secretary Ian Murray produce the cash after promise to make the Scotland Office a turbo-charged spending department.
The SNP has challenged the Labour to hand over a promised £150million “war chest” to tackle child poverty.
“It will mean thousands of Scottish children will be pushed into poverty in the months ahead - as a result of punitive Labour Party welfare cuts like the two child limit, bedroom tax and benefit cap. “That means handing the missing £150million over to the Scottish Government, scrapping the two child benefit cap, abolishing the bedroom tax, and matching the SNP’s Scottish Child Payment UK-wide by raising the child element of Universal Credit by £26.70 a week.
Murray told the BBC on Sunday: “I don’t have a £150million war chest, that was a front page newspaper article that everyone seems to have run with, it was a journalist that made up that figure, not me.”He added: “The point I was trying to make was we don’t have any money yet, in the sense of the Scotland Office being a spending department.
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