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Meeting of the Parliament 05 March 2026 [Draft]

05 Mar 2026 · S6 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
First Minister’s Question Time
Legal Rights (Women and Girls)
Swinney, John SNP Perthshire North Watch on SPTV

The Scottish Government is strengthening the rights of women and girls. I am committed to ensuring that people are protected from abuse, which is why we are introducing new protections for women and girls via the hate crime legislation and are consulting on other new protections, such as banning the creation of deepfake images.

Significant reforms have also recently been introduced, such as the establishment of a sexual offences court, which provides victims of sexual offences with an automatic lifelong right of anonymity, and providing women with the ability to seek protection from abuse by removing the abuser from their home.

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The First Minister (John Swinney) SNP
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The First Minister SNP
I reassure Katy Clark that the Government wants to put in place appropriate funding for rape crisis centres around the country. We are providing a 5 per cent...
Tess White (North East Scotland) (Con) Con
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The First Minister SNP
The Government sets out to Parliament the investment that it is making. I have set out the uplift to the funds, and all of that provision is put to Parliamen...
The Presiding Officer NPA
We move to constituency and general supplementary questions.