This is the list of documents available for the submission By Councillor Dr Martin Bartos:- "Council recognises the increasing challenges facing carers, unpaid contributors to society and low paid citizens - all of whom face the prospect of an increasingly challenging environment due to technological and economic upheaval. Council criticises the continuing absence of a sensible welfare and tax system which both respects the needs of people as human beings, underpins those needs for the wellbeing of all and both rewards and encourages paid and unpaid work. Council notes the long-term political support for such a policy from Greens and others and recognises the need, as existed for the NHS, to design and persuade the wider public that a universal scheme could practically deliver. Council notes the existing body of evidence of the pro-social effects a Universal Basic ("Citizens") Income system could deliver and notes consideration of different pilot schemes in Scotland and internationally. Council further notes the opportunities which could be provided for by changes in the political environment such as devolution of tax and welfare powers as well as consideration of local currency schemes. Understanding the need to deliver on any opportunity to improve the circumstances of the citizens of Glasgow, Council agrees, in tandem with developing our own plans for a pilot scheme, to write to the organisers of other schemes globally to share knowledge and to instruct the Chief Executive to write to relevant ministers at Scottish and Westminster parliaments to seek their assistance with a visionary pilot scheme in Glasgow, with the transfer to the city of such powers and resources as would assist with our scheme.".

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