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To ask the Scottish Executive what complaints there have been under the Scottish Ministerial Code since May 2007; what actions have been taken as a result, and what the outcomes have been.
As she mentioned, external audit is required to discharge its own responsibilities—in Scotland, that involves meeting the code of audit practice, complying with international standards on auditing and so on.
GPs actually hold a lot of data in their clinical systems, but much of it is for direct patient care, so it is text based—it is not coded or consistent, and it is not aimed at answering questions on national outcomes.
The results of that two-year project have just been published, and it has developed a code of practice for equitable digital services for minority ethnic communities.
There are also examples from further afield, such as in the New York penal code, where the definition of homicide includes causing the death of an unborn child.
The committee can be assured that the Government runs its income and expenditure operation through complex processes. There are ledger codes, account codes and so forth that set out all their transactions, and they are then compiled in the set of accounts.
In Scotland, we used to have a system known as QOF—the quality outcomes framework—which was a way of GPs and their teams coding specific information in patient notes.
Section 6 of the UK Agriculture Act 2020 is all about fairness in the supply chain. The leverage that the groceries code adjudicator has through the groceries supply code of practice are limited—it does not even touch the primary producer.