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When a part of Scotland does not vote for the SNP and rejects independence, that is not a reason for political, economic or financial discrimination. Read the ministerial code! Read the ministerial code! You are there to deliver for all of Scotland!
Whatever form they take, businesses rely on people, whether that is people doing jobs or people coding and developing the next round of automation that is coming in.
That situation must be addressed, and that must be done through licensing and a code of conduct that everybody involved in the funeral industry needs to abide by.
The petitioner is calling on the Scottish Parliament to conduct an annual audit of public expenditure on the SPSO, but Audit Scotland has made it clear that external auditors perform an annual audit of the SPSO in accordance with the code of audit practice. If Audit Scotland says that that is already happening, I would tend to believe that it is already hap...
Does the committee agree to consider in private at our next meeting its review of section 2 of the code of conduct for members of the Scottish Parliament, on categories of registrable interests?
I was not in the council when it made that decision, but my understanding is that there was concern about a conflict of interest with the council’s code of conduct. It was also, in part, about the expertise required.
These days, with electronic resources, all the computer code and the data is available, and someone can just take it off the shelf and see where the results have come from, change things, do robustness checks and so on.
They are great principles to guide one, which could be applied to almost any legislative endeavour, but they have a particular focus for tax, because tax law has acquired barnacles of complexity from the chase around avoidance and the need to deter evasion and meet objectives that might be socio-legal in order to incentivise types of activity or disincentivise types of behaviour.It is therefore difficult for us to say that we can immediately have what would be described as a one-A4-page tax code...