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Local authorities are primarily responsible for dealing with fly tipping, and we provided them with updated guidance on doing so in the revised code of practice on litter and refuse, which was published in 2018.
We are working on improvements, including revision to the current code of practice for attorneys in order to set out as clearly as possible the rights and responsibilities of attorneys as well as the safeguards that are in place to protect individuals and the sanctions that can be imposed for misuse.
We need to tread with a degree of caution on that. It must be a code of practice and no more. It should be about enabling farmers and crofters to take up practices that will suit the code of practice and the outcomes that we are trying to get to, rather than being overly prescriptive.
There is no reason why that option would not be used, and I am confident that the prosecution code is applied uniformly by all prosecutors, so, if that is the right outcome, that is the outcome that will be reached.
Previously, they would have been recorded as some kind of authorised absence under a different code. Obviously, we therefore expected the recording to not necessarily be great for the first few years, because it is a new code and schools are getting used to how to record a part-time timetable.
Craig Hoy was quite right to say that she might have broken the ministerial code, but we have a broken system, whereby the First Minister marks their own homework and that of wayward ministers.