The number of women leading or co-leading political ... 29 MSPs would represent a similar proportion of Members of the Scottish Parliament, People with disabilities face social, political and ...

The Scottish Parliament has worked on initiatives to support women in politics. These include a leadership programme developed in partnership with the Young Women’s Movement called Young Women ...

who says the “timely response” will “protect women’s legal right to access single-sex spaces”. She said: “If the Scottish Parliament can respond to the Supreme Court judgement so ...

An historic number of women were elected as Members of Parliament at last year's general election. Some 263 MPs are now women - 40.5% of all MPs - as of last July's polling day. It is an increase ...

Ahead of a final vote, the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill will move to a committee stage where it will be scrutinised and amended by members of the Scottish parliament.

Trans women will no longer be able to use the women's toilets in the Scottish Parliament building. Facilities designated as male or female-only would now be interpreted as meaning biological sex ...

Trans women are to be banned from using the female toilets at the Scottish Parliament. Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone has written to all parliamentary staff to say Holyrood’s toilets will be ...

Trans women are to be banned from female toilets in the Scottish Parliament following last month's landmark Supreme Court ruling that biological men cannot change their legal sex. Alison Johnstone ...