This is the list of documents available for the submission By Councillor Richard Bell:- "Council notes the crisis of low pay and precarity in a labour market characterised by increasingly casualised forms of employment that offer little in the way of pay, predictable hours or long-term security which have been further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Council further notes the evident inability of our bureaucratically costly social security system, with its dependence on means-testing and often arbitrary sanctions, to provide an adequate income. Council believes that a Universal Basic Income, an unconditional, non-withdrawable income paid to everyone, has the potential to offer genuine social security to all while boosting entrepreneurialism and the creation of small businesses. Council further believes that a Universal Basic Income could see everyone through emergency periods, and a recovery phase, providing structural support to all in society as we face the challenge of COVID-19 and future challenges such as automation in the workplace. Council welcomes the results of the recent feasibility study in Scottish council areas including Glasgow, and the recommendation that Scotland commits to a 3-year pilot of the idea co-delivered by the Scottish and UK Governments alongside local authorities, which would provide a reliable, unconditional source of income for everyone. Council considers that as the world looks for ways to build back better from this global crisis, Scotland is well placed to take a world-leading role in developing new radical approaches that provide a real safety net for the most vulnerable people in society, and that Glasgow should be at the heart of this. Council calls on the UK and Scottish Government to fund and commission the possibilities offered by the feasibility study. Council instructs the Chief Executive to write to the Prime Minister and First Minister noting Glasgow City Council's willingness to collaborate in implementing a Universal Basic Income, highlighting the potential for economic renewal and stability, thus supporting a sustainable, inclusive and wellbeing economy..

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