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The newly founded Campaign for Scottish Home Rule called yesterday for £6 billion of welfare powers to be devolved to Holyrood.
Chairman Ben Thomson said the Smith Commission on devolution should recommend control of at least 10 benefits — including housing benefit, disability living allowance and employment and support allowance — be given to the Scottish Parliament.
Mr Thomson, an investment banker, who also founded the market-orientated Reform Scotland think tank, said: “People work best when they are given proper responsibility to get on with the job — the same logic applies to the Scottish Parliament.”
The STUC’s submission to the Smith Commission called for proposed devolution of housing benefit, attendance allowance, carer’s allowance, employability including the Work Programme and the creation of a Scottish Jobcentre Plus.
However, the STUC said it would “need to be convinced that an autonomous welfare system would be sufficiently distinct and better funded to justify the creation of a separate institutional architecture and national insurance system.”
