SNP MSP Ruth Maguire today pressed the Scottish Government on the need for robust safeguards to be in place as prisoners access to mobile phones was announced. The MSP for Cunninghame South stressed the importance of ensuring that prisoners who have been convicted of domestic abuse will not be able to use these mobile phones... Continue Reading →
Ruth Maguire Seeks Assurances for Rights of Children and Vulnerable Adults in Emergency Bill
Ruth Maguire MSP today urged the Scottish Government to provide assurances that safeguards would be assured for the rights of children and vulnerable adults in emergency legislation put in place to tackle the COVID-19 crisis. The Scottish Parliament met this morning to debate Stage 1 of the Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill, an emergency, temporary piece of... Continue Reading →
Week in Review: 24th – 28th February
Ruth held surgeries in Fullarton, Stevenston, Pennyburn and Irvinenext surgeries take place on Friday 13th March. A full list of dates and times is available here.Ruth met with Scottish Youth Parliament Equalities and Human Rights Convener, Revati Campbell to hear about the work of the Youth Parliament and discuss joint work on a session on... Continue Reading →
Week in Review (17th – 21st February)
Ruth started the week with an MSP@YourSchool session at Pennyburn Primary School in Kilwinning where she answered a range of interesting and thoughtful questions from P5 pupils. Ruth convened a meeting of the Equalities and Human Rights Committee which took evidence on the Civil Partnership (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1. The meeting is available to... Continue Reading →
FGM (Protection and Guidance) (Scotland) Bill Update
18th December marked the 40th anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. On this day, the Scottish Parliament also unanimously voted to agree the general principles of the Female Genital Mutilation (Protection and Guidance) (Scotland) Bill which now moves onto the second stage of the legislative process. This... Continue Reading →
Ruth Maguire MSP (SNP) 