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To return to one of my earlier criticisms of Professor McCormac, he disregards what the SNCT has done since 2001. The code of practice for chartered teachers and the revised standard for chartered teachers that the GTC developed provided a lot of focus for what chartered teachers are about.
All that amendment 55 seeks to do is to create a code of practice to ensure that assisted dying interacts appropriately with hospices and other providers of palliative and end-of-life care.
Another practice that we have started with our reports is that we have agreed with GPs in Tayside the coding that it would be beneficial for them to record after we have done diagnostic assessment, so that we can look at that data.
We were the first service to have a code of ethics for policing. Our chief constable came out and said openly that systemic issues in Scottish society inevitably come into the service when we recruit from our communities and try to represent them in our workforce.
We have set up a purchase order—a separate project code—for the money so we will be able to ring fence it and get proper approvals to say whether a proposal fits the capital expenditure criteria.