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This Group is in the public interest as Scotland has a growing ethnic minority population and there has been minimal attention on the issue of racial and religious hatred to date. The public would be updated on Parliamentary discussions and to consider new ways to tackle racial and religious intolerance.
The purpose of the group is to be a forum for like-minded people who believe that the legislation surrounding prostitution and sex trafficking is out of date and in need of urgent reform. 2.
We have the numbers from the report, and you are right that the report that we are working from is dated. You have been hard at work on that and are making progress.
At our 25 June 2025 meeting, before we went into summer recess, the committee heard evidence from the Rt Hon Dorothy Bain KC, the Lord Advocate, as well as officials from the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.
Does the committee wish to note that the Scottish Government intends to resolve, by correction slip, the issues that are highlighted in points 1 and 4 as soon as practicable and, in any event, before the summer recess? Members indicated agreement. Does the committee also wish to highlight to the lead committee the Scottish Government’s response to its ques...
That is why I gathered together a range of stakeholders during the Easter recess to ensure that the Government is well sighted on the issues that individual sectors are facing as a consequence of the unwelcome changes in international trading arrangements, which generate a great deal of volatility.
What does the minister intend to do over the recess to promote those welcome schemes and to ensure that communities that have been left behind by the Scottish National Party Government for 15 years will benefit from that investment?
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-25734 by John Swinney on 3 June 2015, whether the "near future" means before the summer recess. The Scottish Government has not yet set a date for publication.