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Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill correspondence: FOI release

Published: 11 March 2021
Part of: Communities and third sector, Equality and rights, Law and order, +1 more … Public sector
FOI reference: FOI/202000103652
Date received: 27 October 2020
Date responded: 3 December 2020

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002

Information requested

Giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament's Justice Committee on the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill on 27 October 2020, Cabinet Secretary for Justice Humza Yousaf MSP said that he had met with "women's groups working at the coalface" to discuss adding 'sex' as a protected characteristic to the draft legislation.

Please can you list which groups the Minister and Scottish Government officials have met with and please provide all notes, minutes and correspondence related to these meetings.

Response

Attached is some of the information you requested as outlined in the attached schedule of documents.

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some the information you have requested because an exemption under section s.38(1)(b) (personal information) of FOISA applies to that information.

The reasons why that exemption applies are explained in the Annex.

With the exception of personal information, covered by section 38(1)(b), we have released all information within scope of your request, found during our search, other than sections that have been marked [REDACTED - OUT OF SCOPE].

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