As an amendment to motion S4M-08135 in the name of Christina McKelvie (Hidden in Plain Sight) leave out from "in combatting trafficking" to end and insert "and devolved administrations in combatting trafficking in human beings since the publication of the Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group‘s first report, Wrong Kind of Victim?; notes the report’s eight recommendations for Scotland, covering the Scottish Parliament’s responsibility to tackle human trafficking through devolved powers for criminal law, the police, the judicial system, healthcare and the services that are provided to victims; notes in particular the recommendation for a Scottish national referral mechanism; welcomes what it considers the report’s recognition that the proposed Human Trafficking (Scotland) Bill represents progress toward realising this important recommendation, and hopes that both the UK and Scottish governments will take note of all of the recommendations in the report."
Submitted by: Christina McKelvie, Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, Scottish National Party, Date lodged: Thursday, October 31, 2013
Supported by: Clare Adamson, Colin Beattie, Roderick Campbell, Annabelle Ewing, Linda Fabiani, John Finnie, Kenneth Gibson, Rob Gibson, Christine Grahame, Jamie Hepburn, Adam Ingram, Alison Johnstone, Colin Keir, Bill Kidd, Richard Lyle, Angus MacDonald, Mike MacKenzie, John Mason, Joan McAlpine, Mark McDonald, Margaret McDougall, Aileen McLeod, Fiona McLeod, Stuart McMillan, Gil Paterson, Richard Simpson, Kevin Stewart, David Torrance, Jean Urquhart, Maureen Watt, Sandra White