 Diolch am ddraeth. Felly, i gymryd i ddech chi ddim yn gweithio'r cyfle iaith o ddod, wrth gwrs, ac roedd wrth gwrs ymlaen nhw i gyfleiaethol i'r meddwl, wrth gwrs, i ddod, i ddod, i ddod, i ddod, i gylio i ddod i ddod, i ddod i'r meddwl am ddod am yr esbyn yma, i ddod i ddod. 1, Ruth Maguire. To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the recent child poverty action group report, The Austerity Generation. Cabinet Secretary Angela Constance. The report can be added to the catalogue of evidence that the United Kingdom Government's onslot of welfare changes and austerity has been deeply damaging to individuals and families. The report shows that across the UK, universal credit will push a further 1 million more children into poverty, 1 million more children. I find it utterly appalling and the Tories should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. The member asks for the Scottish Government response to the report, and I can't put it better than the CPAC chief executive officer, Alison Grant-Gartham, when she said, since 2010, rather than investing in her children, the UK Government policy has been creating an hysterity generation whose childhood and life chances will be scarred by a decade of political decisions to stop protecting their living standards. It goes to show that it was just pure rhetoric when Theresa May said on becoming Prime Minister that she wanted to tackle the burning injustices of having different life chances if you were poor. So, Presiding Officer, it's time to protect her children and reverse these disruptive cuts. Ruth Maguire, child poverty action group has said that this report shows that the Tories are guilty of a colossal failure of public policy and breaking their promise to reward those who work, and that their policy decisions make the Scottish Government's pledge to end child poverty in Scotland much harder. Would the minister agree? I do, of course, agree where the Scottish Government is demonstrating a very clear ambition to eradicate child poverty by setting ambitious targets. The UK Government's decisions are pushing 1 million more children across the UK into poverty. Of those, the child poverty action group states that 900,000 will be in severe poverty by the end of the decade. We all know that 70 per cent of children in poverty live in households where someone is in employment, and so, with the Tories' policies working against us, the challenge to reducing ultimately end child poverty is indeed significant. As Governments, we should be seeking to reduce child poverty and create better outcomes in lives for future generations. The Tories are doing the opposite of that and, indeed, are presiding over the biggest rise in child poverty since modern records began in 1961. Ruth Maguire? I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. The child poverty action group report reveals that cuts to universal credit will push up child poverty across the UK by a million. Will the cabinet secretary reiterate calls that the UK Government must halt the rollout of universal credit and fix the major mistakes in that benefit that are seriously hurting the people of Scotland? The Scottish Government has, along with others, repeatedly called on the UK Government to halt the rollout of universal credit until it fixes the fundamental flaws, starting with the inbuilt minimum six-week wait for first payment. However, as the CPAC report shows, it is far more than that. It is cuts in the tax credit system, cuts in freezes to work allowances, the benefit freeze, the benefit cap and, of course, the two-child limit, which has brought about the appalling rate clause. Under the cover of simplifying a complicated benefit system, the Tories have systematically and ruthlessly made cuts and introduced new policies, which will see working families hit particularly hard. CPAC are also not the only ones highlighting the damage caused by universal credit. A report out today from the Trussell Trust shows that in areas where universal credit has been in place for six months or more, there has been a 30 per cent average increase in people coming to food banks compared to the year before. Let me repeat, Presiding Officer, that the UK Government must take its head out of the sand and take urgent action now to reverse those policies and to stop even more families and even more children being pushed into poverty. Tomorrow, Presiding Officer, we in this Parliament will be debating and hopefully passing the Scottish Government's child poverty bill without anticipating too much of what might be said tomorrow afternoon in that debate. I would like to thank the cabinet secretary for her constructive approach to stage three of that bill. Does the cabinet secretary agree that the bill now is much stronger than it was when she introduced it into this parliament and that it has been strengthened because of Opposition amendments to it at stage two, amendments that were voted against, among others, by Ruth Maguire in the Social Security Committee? Presiding Officer, we will indeed, I believe, come to a historic moment tomorrow again without pre-empting Parliament's decision when I hope that we will unite across this chamber to push forward with our child poverty bill. A child poverty bill that was not in this Government's manifesto shows that this Government is always prepared to go above and beyond the commitments that we make in public during elections and in our manifestos and in our programme for governments. We want to do the right thing. I have welcomed the engagement across Parliament with regard to the child poverty bill. The child poverty bill will strengthen our hand in Scotland to address child poverty. Of course, Mr Tomkins fails to recognise that, given the CPAC report, what they call the austerity generation report, we all now have to unite against UK Government policies as well as uniting around Scottish Government legislation. The loss in family income as a result of cuts to tax credits and cuts to welfare support is absolutely staggering. We will know that the poorest 10 per cent are at risk of losing 10 per cent of their income. That is £450 a year. Working families stand to lose £930 a year on average from cuts in tax credit systems and £420 a year from cuts to the universal credit. I hope that as well as uniting around our legislation in this Parliament that we will also finally unite around the damning cuts to welfare that the UK Government has imposed. The austerity generation report outlines that freezes and cuts to universal credit work allowances will leave lone parents as high as £710 a year worse off. Does the cabinet secretary agree that universal credit is hurting the poorest and lone parents in particular, and that it is right that there should be cross-party working to halt it until this system is fixed to people that should have been? Can she outline what assistance the Government might be able to offer to lone parents who are the hardest hit? I thank Ms McNeill for her question. There are a range of initiatives, investments and endeavours that the Government is currently taking forward. I know that she is a big fan of financial health checks, making sure that people receive the benefits that they are entitled to. Of course, it begs the question of what people's overall entitlement should be. She is right to point out to the increasing plight of lone parent families. Across this Government, we will endeavour always to increase our efforts to help those who are most in need. The member, I am sure, is well aware of the First Minister's programme for government and the range of measures that is outlined in that over the next year. On a fundamental level, we will have a child poverty bill, a social economic duty that will come in place, a fairer Scotland action plan, 50,000 affordable homes over the lifetime of this Parliament, a massive investment in the early years and childcare, as well as a £750 million attainment gap fund. All that shows what we are doing now. As we move forward from our child poverty legislation, the question always will be what more can we do and what next, not least for lone parent families.