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There is the Competition and Markets Authority and the groceries code adjudicator. They are partly there to ensure that the market works appropriately.
Alongside a digital tracking system for new or replacement assets, we can ensure through quick response—QR—codes, for example, that we extract as much of that value as possible.
We have heard that the UN Secretary General has called the IPCC’s report “code red for humanity”. He warned: “This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet.”
I do not need to go into the figures; we have all got them.Like Jim Hume, I welcome the code of practice between Transport Scotland, the NFUS and local authorities, which will enable farmers to offer better support in the clearing of roads.
I think that you are saying that, although a formal code—almost a legally enforceable code—is at play, nobody any longer regards it as being anything other than an informal guide.
Will it just have the name of the cigarette at the top? It will also have the coding that I have already mentioned. We intend to introduce the necessary legislation within the next year to 18 months.
A number of working groups and community forums have been set up, as required by the code of construction practice. We have a feedback loop in all of those to ensure that what we are doing is working and is delivering what was intended in the code of construction practice.
Under what is called the prudential code—which is a general code of guidance, produced by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, the value of which we recognise—local authorities have the power to borrow to fund capital projects.
I welcome to the meeting Alex Johnstone as a new member of the committee and, in accordance with section 3 of the code of conduct, invite him to declare any interests that might be relevant to the committee’s remit.