“For Women Scotland” Supreme Court Ruling

Debate between Bridget Phillipson and Melanie Ward

Tuesday 22nd April 2025 Commons Chamber

[Bridget Phillipson]

I suggest to the hon. Lady that she review Hansard after this statement.

[Melanie Ward (Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy) (Lab)]

Following the welcome clarity from the Supreme Court that Labour’s Equality Act has always contained the right to single-sex spaces for women as well as protections for trans people, does the Minister agree that the SNP Scottish Health Secretary must urgently get a grip and ensure that the NHS is upholding the law, especially in my area of Fife where it appears that a nurse, Sandie Peggie, was disciplined by NHS managers for trying to exercise her right to use a single-sex changing room?

[Bridget Phillipson]

My hon. Friend will understand that I am not in a position to comment on ongoing cases, but I can say to her that I agree that the Supreme Court ruling demonstrated that the Equality Act introduced by the last Labour Government is the basis on which single-sex provision based on biological sex should be delivered.