Public money ‘at risk' from failure to implement gender ruling
Significant sums of taxpayers' money is at risk of being squandered due to a refusal to implement the Supreme Court gender ruling in Scotland, John Swinney's most senior civil servant has been warned.
The Scottish government is facing two 'concrete threats' of legal action due to its failure to abandon policies in place across the public sector which allow biological males to enter women's single-sex spaces by asserting they self-identify as female.
On Tuesday, Joe Griffin, the new permanent secretary, admitted that he was unable to provide Holyrood's finance committee with any 'specific actions' that had been taken to abide by the ruling.
Instead, he said that a working group had been set up to 'prepare the ground' for the publication of official guidance by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on how it should be implemented.
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