Scrap the "disastrous" bedroom tax or let Holyrood do it, MSPs have once again demanded of Westminster's Con-Dem coalition.

Some 80,000 households in Scotland have been hit by the policy which cuts housing benefit by up to 24 per cent for those living in council or housing association homes deemed to be "under-occupied."

Those households have a median gross income of just £209 a week yet face eviction unless they can pay an average of £728 a year in arrears - the equivalent of six weeks' rent.