Question reference: S5W-25080
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 3 September 2019
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Current status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 13 September 2019
Question
To ask the Scottish Government which stakeholders the Cabinet Secretary for Social Security and Older People has met following requests made since 1 March 2018 to discuss issues relating to transgender people, gender recognition reform and sex-based women's rights, broken down by the (a) date of each request and (b) date, duration and location of each meeting; what topics were discussed, and what commitments the cabinet secretary made.
Answer
Information on Ministerial engagements is published on the Scottish Government’s website and is at https://www.gov.scot/search/?q=Ministerial+engagements The most recent published information is for April 2019.
Since then, I met on 13 June 2019 with Louise Macdonald, Chair of First Minister’s National Advisory Group on Women and Girls; on 25 June 2019 with LGBT organisations (Equality Network, Scottish Trans Alliance, Stonewall Scotland, LGBT Youth Scotland, LGBT Health and Wellbeing); on 6 August 2019 with women’s organisations (Engender, Zero Tolerance, Scottish Women’s Aid, Close the Gap and Rape Crisis Scotland) and on 21 August 2019 with LGBT organisations (Equality Network, Scottish Trans Alliance, Stonewall Scotland, LGBT Youth Scotland, LGBT Health and Wellbeing).
I have also met with MSPs from across the Parliament.