Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021- SSI to add sex as a characteristic: consultation analysis

Footnotes

1 Where appropriate, when dealing with small numbers of responses by organisations raising a particular issue, exact numbers have been given (e.g. “of the three organisations who were not content with the approach to X, one said this was because”)

2 There were cases where it would be reasonable to make an assumption about the respondent’s position on the question from the comments they had left, but others were less clear cut.

3 These numbers only include those organisations which directly answered the question. Two organisations used the comments section to provide views, but did not answer the question. Their comments appear to suggest that they are sceptical of extending the 2021 Act to cover the characteristic of sex.

4 This includes two organisations which did not provide an answer to the question.

5 Many referred to ‘protected characteristics’ which may be a reference to the characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010, though it should be noted that not all of these are specifically covered by the 2021 Act.