Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting Minutes
2nd Meeting, 2024
- Date: Thursday, January 11, 2024
- Session: 6
- Location: T4.60-CR6 The Livingstone Room
- Meeting opened at: 13:03
- Meeting closed at: 14:18
- Published: Thursday, January 11, 2024 03:43pm
Also Present
Maggie Chapman, Jackie Dunbar, Rachael Hamilton, Ash Regan and Tess White.
1 Management of transgender prisoners in Scotland:
The Committee took evidence from—
Angela Constance, Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs and Jamie MacQueen, Legal Directorate, Scottish Government;
Teresa Medhurst, Chief Executive, Scottish Prison Service.
2 Subordinate legislation:
Russell Findlay moved—
S6M-11817—That the Criminal Justice Committee recommends that the Gender Recognition (Disclosure of Information) (Scotland) Order 2023 (SSI 2023/364) be annulled.
S6M-11816—That the Criminal Justice Committee recommends that the Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 2023 (SSI 2023/366) be annulled.
The motions were, with the agreement of the Committee, withdrawn.
3 Subordinate legislation:
The Committee considered the following negative instrument—
Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023 (SSI 2023/369)
The Committee agreed to make no recommendations in relation to the instrument.