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So far as Ms Constance’s second question is concerned, the ministerial code makes clear the expectation that ministers and policy makers— To give an example at an elementary level, if I am having my will drawn up, in a conversation with my lawyer I might say, “I want X, Y and Z.”
Importantly, the Lord Advocate also set out details of the current publicly available prosecution code, which contains comment on the public interest test and how the best interests of the child are central to decision making.
We have talked a bit about poor understanding of career opportunities in engineering and computer science and coding. Is there not the opposite problem that one of the reasons why computer science teachers cannot be recruited is that they can be paid a lot more for working in industry?
It is partly an IT project, and it is partly a culture change project—as is the case for all IT projects—in order to simplify time-recording codes and so on behind the scenes. We have a good project team working on it and we have had lots of dialogue in the business about it.
The SPADs say that they can advise but they cannot instruct. How many are sticking to that code? To me, it seems that the shadowy fingers of SPADs mark many FOI responses.
For example, the national 5 computing exam had coding errors in it, and STEM subjects and exams have become increasingly technical and have faced increased scrutiny.
The latest version of the ministerial code came in under the current First Minister, but I note that, of course, the need for integrity and to declare friendships was in place well before 2018.
The internationally recognised colour code for hydrogen has about as many shades on it as the pride flag does, but fundamentally, most industrially produced hydrogen to date has been made using fossil fuels with no abatement of emissions.