Minimum Income Guarantee: report - executive summary
An executive summary of the independent Minimum Income Guarantee Expert Group’s final report providing an overview of the steps towards a Minimum Income Guarantee.
Footnotes
1 The Kings Fund (2024) The Relationship Between Poverty And NHS Services
2 The Poverty Alliance (2022) The Poverty Alliance submit evidence to the Education, Children and Young People Committee on the Scottish Attainment Challenge
3 CPAG (2024) End Child Poverty budget briefing 2025-26
4 Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2024) A Minimum Income Standard for the United Kingdom in 2024. It reflects public consensus on what is needed for a dignified socially acceptable standard of living in 2024, developed from group discussions with the general public held between May 2023 and March 2024. It is rooted in what people were experiencing at that time and what resources and priorities were considered important for households to be able to thrive, with all budgets priced in April 2024
5 Scottish Government (2025) Wellbeing Economy Governments (WEGo)
6 IPPR Scotland (2022) Universal basic services: Building financial security in Scotland
7 Minimum Income Guarantee Expert Group (2025) Time-limited Minimum Income Guarantee evidence paper
8 Minimum Income Guarantee Expert Group (2025) Time-limited Minimum Income Guarantee evidence paper
9 This would not preclude work to deliver an independent Scotland by those who support independence.
Contact
Email: MIGsecretariat@gov.scot