Consultation Submissions

The consultation for the Proposed Prostitution (Offences and Support) (Scotland) Bill was published on the Bills and Laws section of the Scottish Parliament’s website, which also includes the consultation summary published on 27 January 2025.

Read the Consultation document
Read the Consultation summary

The consultation was open from 19 June 2024 to 30 September 2024, following an extension from the original deadline of 12 September 2024. A total of 100 responses were received, all submitted via email. Of these, 91 responses are published below. Nine respondents requested that their submissions not be published.

01 – Anonymous Individual

02 – Robert Shields

03 – Anonymous Individual

04 – Ryan McSorley

05 – Dr Jacci Stoyle

06 – Anonymous Individual

07 – Anonymous Individual

08 – Anonymous Individual

09 – Paul Milnes

10 – Not Buying It

11 – Anonymous Organisation

12 – Anonymous Individual

13 – A Model For Scotland

14 – Cross Party Group on Commercial Sexual Exploitation

14 – Cross Party Group on Commercial Sexual Exploitation – Supplementary Evidence

15 – For Women Scotland

16 – Anonymous Individual

17 – The Equally Safe Edinburgh committee

18 – Scott Bamford

19 – The Josephine Butler Society

20 – Anonymous Organisation

21 – Anonymous Individual

22 – Beira’s Place

23 – CARE for scotland

24 – Dr Anna Cleaves

25 – Anonymous Individual

26 – Males Allies Challenging Sexism

27 – Scottish Courts and tribunal service

27 – Scottish Courts and tribunal service – supplementary evidence

28 – FiLiA

29 – The Scottish Women’s Convention

30 – Faces and voices of recovery uK

31 – Lorraine Skorupska

32 – Dr Lynzi Armstrong

33 – Anonymous Individual

34 – National Ugly Mugs

35 – Ali Morris

36 – Dominic O’Regan

37 – Lanarkshire Rape Crisis Centre

38 – Anonymous Individual

39 – Tim Dieppe

40 – Anonymous Individual

41 – Scottish Women’s Aid

42 – The Law Society of Scotland

43 – Nordic Model Now!

44 – The United Reformed Church National Synod of Scotland Mission Committee

45 – North Lanarkshire Council

46 – Anonymous Individual

47 – Anonymous Individual

48 – Anonymous Individual

49 – Chris Elton

50 – Anonymous Individual

51 – Teresa Dufficy

52 – Anonymous Individual

53 – Serena Arif

54 – Anonymous Individual

55 – Anonymous Individual

56 – Joanne Norris

57 – Ann Hall

58 – Kruti Walsh

59 – NZPC

60 – Women’s Support Project

61 – Alison Weir

62 – Jacinta Cooke

63 – Anonymous Individual

64 – Kate Deeming

65 – Free church of scotland

66 – Christian Concern

67 – Restore Glasgow

68 – Suzanne Malyon

69 – Larissa Sandy

70 – L Mclarty

71 – Women Won’t Wheesht

72 – Street Workers Collective Ireland

73 – Amnesty International

74 – Jen Gale

75 – Evangelical Alliance Scotland

76 – East Ayrshire Council

77 – The Christian Institute

78 – Scotland for decrim

79 – Rape and sexual abuse centre perth and kinross

80 – Trevi Women

81 – ELSC Productions CIC

82 – English Collective of prostitutes

82 – English Collective of prostitutes – supplementary evidence

83 – Karleen Gribble

84 – CEASE

85 – Scott Buxton

86 – North ayrshire health and social care partnership

87 – NRS, VAWG services, Glasgow City Council

88 – Stacey Clare

89 – Jo Phoenix

90 – European Network of migrant women

91 – Melissa Farley

91 – Melissa Farley – Supplementary Evidence