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We should ensure that, when women in elected office experience any sort of behaviour such as you have described, a safe reporting mechanism is in place through which they can gain assurance and safety.
Some of it will be down to people and their behaviours and relationships. It is down to individuals to try to make a commitment to collectively make the process work.
Recognising the 10th anniversary of the Christie commission report, my one note of caution is that the measures drive a lot of the behaviours, so there is a need to think about whether the measures are the right ones to produce the outcomes, and we tried to convey that sentiment in our recent reporting.
One of the most important aspects of it, which I have not highlighted in my remarks, is behaviour change across not only affected workers and communities but society.
The Government’s approach is about changing behaviour; the idea is not that someone can just pay some more money and continue doing what they are doing.
Motions moved, That the Parliament agrees that, for the purposes of stage 3 consideration of the Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Bill, Rule 9.5.3B of Standing Orders be suspended.
A key part of that is the greater focus that we are placing on community alternative disposals, which we know are much more effective in tackling offending behaviour, as a means by which we can seek to reduce our prison population overall.