Universal credit has been reserved because if Scotland decided to make it more generous, the issue would arise of how it would pay for that. What we find with fiscal independence is that we have to delegate both sides of the equation—the raising of the money and the spending of it—and then it can decide how much it wants to spend.
Scotland Bill
Proceeding contribution from
John Redwood
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 15 June 2015.
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Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Scotland Bill.
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