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That brings our coverage of the parliament to a close for the evening.

We'll be back tomorrow with that Social Security session with the UK government minister, which kicks off at 10pm.

Until then, have a good night. 

The employability minister says the expert group formed by the Scottish government ahead of the independence vote did call for some conditionality.

Mr Hepburn says it is about the proportionality of the conditionality and the UK government and the DWP has got it wrong.

He concludes the debate on welfare conditionality saying attendance of work programmes should be voluntary and there should be no threat of sanctions hanging over them.

Mr Hepburn says Work and Pensions Secretary Damien Greene will appear before the Social Security Committee and you can watch it with us here.

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Employability Minister Jamie Hepburn says Oxford University found that when sanctions increase so do the rate of food bank use.

Mr Hepburn says the sanctions regime is a ludicrous system.

Employability Minister Jamie Hepburn says this debate has heard a number of desperate examples of how sanctions affect people in society.

Mr Hepburn says sanctions come as a shock to most people because they do not realise they are coming. 

He says research is pointing to the impact of sanctions on young and vulnerable people. 

SNP MSP Clare Adamson says it is not the job of the Scottish tax payers to fund the discredited and broken sanctions regime.

Scottish Labour MSP Pauline McNeil says the Scottish Tories are out of touch if they do not at least appreciate that the sanctions system is becoming more topical by the day.

Ms McNeil says the problem with the sanctions system is that it is so disproportionate. 

She says the sanctions system "has lost its way and needs to be changed" and that is what this debate is all about.

Green MSP John Finnie says social security support should be person centred.

Mr Finnie says individual packages of care should be provided.

He says there is not sufficient funding to help those with disabilities into work.

SNP MSP Clare Haughey says benefits sanctions are "consciously cruel".

The former social security officer says the system must build dignity and respect back into the system.

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Two years ago he suggested he would be retiring from film-making, but instead 79-year-old director Ken Loach has won the coveted Palme D'Or award for the second time at the Cannes Film Festival.

The winning film, I Daniel Blake, marks the 13th time that Loach, the director of more than 50 movies, has competed at the event. It's also exactly 10 years since he won the same prize for his 2006 Irish drama The Wind That Shakes The Barley, starring Cillian Murphy..

Loach uses I, Daniel Blake to expose the welfare system in the UK, and says he wants the film "to break audience's hearts, but also to make them angry".

Daniel Blake, played by stand-up comedian Dave Johns, is an older man living in Newcastle who, because of a heart attack, can no longer do his job

Will Gompertz went to meet the film's director Ken Loach and you can watch the interview here.

Scottish Labour MSP Neil Bibby says there is an increasing awareness of the impact of sanctions.

Mr Bibby says there is important considerations as to how this parliament will operate the social security system now that the powers are being handed over.

The Labour MSP says the loss of income via sanctioning is generally disproportionate to the so called crime.

He says claimants can often end up without money for weeks meaning they are unable to pay for food.

This can also affect claimants families such as their children. 

Mr Bibby says the new film 'I, Daniel Blake' shines a light on benefit sanctions.  

The most vulnerable people in Scotland are falling into destitution because the benefits system is "simply not working", according to a charity.

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In July, Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) called for urgent government action as it revealed a 47% increase in food bank inquiries on its services.

It said it provided advice on emergency food providers 7,400 times in 2014/15.

The UK government said the report failed to recognise that poverty in Scotland was at a record low.

According to the Welfare Conditionality study:

• Most respondents report negative experiences of conditional welfare interventions. 
• The impacts of benefit sanctions are universally reported by welfare service users as profoundly negative
• Harsh, disproportionate or inappropriate sanctioning created deep resentment and feelings of injustice among WSUs
• Most WSUs reported negative experiences of support from Jobcentre Plus or the Work Programme

• There was limited evidence to date of welfare conditionality bringing about positive behaviour change

• Poor communication meant some respondents did not understand the reasons for sanction
• Some WSUs were broadly supportive of welfare rights being linked to specified responsibilities. 
• Many were critical of welfare conditionality in principle and in practice  

Scottish Conservtive MSP Adam Tomkins says sanctions are and have always been a part of the welfare system.

The Conservative MSP says the number of people sanctioned is "tiny".

He says there has to be some kind of conditionality.

The Tory MSP says work is the best way to get people out of poverty.

SNP MSP Sandra White says research shows that the fundamentals of the benefit sanctions system is flawed because people want to work.

Ms White says people entering the job centre are made to feel like criminals and that it is demeaning.

The SNP MSP says the sanctions regime is dehumanising and pushes some into food banks. 

She says the Scottish social security system must put people at the heart of its policies and not make the same mistakes as the UK government.

Ms White asks what sort of society we want to live in and says she will always pick one that supports people in need.