This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
Her response is as follows: SPS does not have a policy for gender self-identification. SPS does however retain the right to place people in a way that both meets the needs of the individual and ensures the safety and wellbeing of all those in our care.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
31 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its report, A Caring, Compassionate and Human Rights Informed Drug Policy for Scotland, which are the further changes to drugs policy “not dependent on constitutional change” that it has identified.
Any processes in relation to disputes with service users, including in relation to debt to that body, are between the service user and the body, with established dispute resolution processes in place. There are established rights of review and appeal in relation to Social Security Scotland and Council Tax liabilities...
I recognise the huge talent and skills that exist in Scotland’s civil service. It supports all of the policy agenda that we take forward across a wide range of ministerial portfolios.
Transport Infrastructure (South Scotland) To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on plans to develop transport infrastructure in the South Scotland region, including in relation to an upgrade of the A75 and rail links from Ayr to Stranraer and Cairnryan.
Of course progress towards achieving what we set out to achieve will be important but, right now, the focus of everyone is—or should be—on shaping a skills and post-school education landscape that meets the needs of our learners for the future.
Mr Ewing is correct: I do not think that, in all the representations that the JCVI has made, we have a specific explanation of why it is right in one place and wrong in another.