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To ensure stakeholders are able to fully engage we are issuing the attached points of clarification. As part of ongoing engagement, we welcome any views, feedback, comments on this in the consultation responses and invite any additional comments / thoughts arising in relation to this matter.
We are looking for a short report, ideally bullet points. If there is nothing to report, then the CRT can say that, along with information on next likely action, and date for that action.
On 2nd October 2023, at the Travelling Cabinet meeting, Humza Yousaf pledged a “firm commitment” to funding the preferred route and stated “There’s no point in making a commitment in spirit without the money, the money has got to be there.”
The committee would be interested to know whether, having had the opportunity to reflect on the evidence heard by the Committee on this point (in particular the evidence from the Minister and the Scottish Government), the Law Society of Scotland has any further comments to make in relation to section 65 of the Bill.
More tellingly is the submission provided by a constituent engaging with Wigtownshire maternity services, who points out there has been a reduction in service without community engagement.
No evidence has been presented that suggests that the Nordic model makes women more unsafe.iCriminal Justice Committee, Official Report, Wednesday 26 November 2025 (Col 8)
She commented that prostitution was inherently violent, but “we have to be careful that we are not conflating the legislative model with the violence”.iiCriminal Justice Committee, Official Report, Wednesday 26 November 2025 (Col 13)
She noted, when she gave evidence on 25 June 2025, that the proposed new offence—
…will not make prostitution safe.
PE1865_AAA June Connolly submission of 26 July 2021.
June Connolly submission of 26 July 2021 in relation to PE1865: Suspend all surgical mesh and fixation devices.
To deliver that policy, amendment 3 amends section 1, while amendments 25 and 26 consequentially amend the Functions of Health Boards (Scotland) Order 1991 via the schedule to the bill.