Supported by: Liz Smith*, Jeremy Balfour*, Liam Kerr*, Ruth Maguire*, Margaret Mitchell*, Alexander Stewart*, Bill Bowman*, Stewart Stevenson*, Ash Denham*, Murdo Fraser*, Edward Mountain*, Fulton MacGregor*, Alison Harris*, Peter Chapman*, Donald Cameron*, Kenneth Gibson*, Jamie Halcro Johnston* *S5M-06863 Rona Mackay: MSM Blood Donor Change That the Parliament welcomes — changes to blood donation rules that are being introduced by the Scottish Government, in light of information from the Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs, to make it easier for men who have sex with men (MSM) to donate blood; notes that ministers have asked the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service for the period of sexual abstinence for MSM is to be reduced from 12 months to three; understands that this will help increase Scotland desperately needed blood supplies, and agrees that donors should not be judged on their sexual preferences, but their behaviours...