Scotland - Criminalisation of the Purchase of Sex Bill

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On the 23rd of May Rhoda Grant MSP made the first step towards launching a bill for the criminalisation of the purchase of sex in Scotland. It's not a bill, yet, but a request to the Justice Committee to let her get away with not doing a proper consultation of her own. You can read her Statement of Reasons here:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S4_Mem...of_Sex.pdf

She states that her bill doesn't need to go out for consultation due to the fact that a majority of respondents supported Trish Godman's bill at her (deeply flawed, biased and unprofessional) consultation. The Justice Committee will need to decide whether that is the case; they meet next on the 29th of May and then on the 19th of June, before parliament goes into recess on the 30th.

If you would like to keep up-to-date with the development of the bill and our response to it, please visit our forum on the SCOT-PEP website (www.scot-pep.org.uk), go to the Criminalisation Bill (Scottish Parliament) thread, read the post titled 'And so it begins...' and leave a comment. Any comment. You'll then be automatically notified of any new posts on that subject.

We're also, on a totally related note, actively looking for new members for our Campaigning Group - see our post 'SCOT-PEP Campaign Group' in this Forum for details.