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Scotsman Politics Editor Alistair Grant in Govan for Building a new Scotland launch
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06/12/2023
Scotsman Politics Editor Alistair Grant in Govan for Building a new Scotland launch
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Hello, I'm Alistair Grant and I'm the Political Editor of The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday
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and I'm here in Govan this morning for the launch of the ninth paper in the Scottish
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Government's Building a New Scotland series. This is the series of papers, series of documents
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aiming at setting out an updated prospectus for independence and looking at all sorts
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of different aspects of that. The one today is looking at social security, the social
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security system in an independent Scotland, the benefits system. There's all sorts of
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stuff in this paper. I have to say there's not much in the way of timelines and an overall
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cost of that move from the current system to what it might look like in an independent
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Scotland. I think one of the key things that I've picked out is that there's these ten
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key actions that the Scottish Government wants to take in the very early years of an independent
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Scotland to reform the existing universal credit benefit system. So that would include
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things like scrapping the two-child cap, ending the current system of benefit sanctions and
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Shirley-Anne Somerville, the Social Justice Secretary, was today saying that these actions
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could be taken within five years, so very quickly. I think it's worth pointing out that
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spending on social security is huge, both in Scotland and across the UK. I think the
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Scottish Government currently spends more on social security than it gets from the UK
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Government in funding. So the gap is forecast to rise to £1.3 billion more in 2027-28 and
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those are figures from the Scottish Parliament's independent fact-checking service. So it's
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a huge issue obviously. I think one of the other things to look out for in the Scotsman's
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website this morning as well is I was at an event in Edinburgh last night with Nicola
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Sturgeon at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh. It was an event in which she was talking about
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her life in books, talking about her love of books and there were some quite interesting
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comments she made about the memoir she's currently writing of her time in politics, which there
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will obviously be a lot of interest in when it's published. She's saying she's finding
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the process of writing it a bit harder than she expected.
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