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In accordance with section 3 of volume 2 of the code of conduct for members, I invite Robin Harper to declare any interests that are relevant to the committee's remit.
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You raise an important point on electronic communications codes, which we are aware of and which is relevant here in relation to the positioning of overhead infrastructure in private gardens.
Today, Heineken was rightly fined £2 million for serious breaches of the statutory pubs code in England and Wales, yet there is no statutory regulation of the pub code here in Scotland.
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.