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In accordance with section 3 of the “Code of Conduct for Members of the Scottish Parliament”, I invite Jeremy Balfour MSP to declare any interests that are relevant to the committee’s remit.
The Committee also agreed with the Commissioner's conclusions—
That the conduct set out in the first part of the complaint was a breach of the Code of Conduct and the Members Interest Act 2006; and
That the conduct set out in the second part of the complaint was not a breach of the Code or the Act.
To understand that, we need not only to review the code but to look at what the code does and at all the various points at which it has agency and influence over what happens.
The complaint is that Peter Chapman may have breached the “Code of Conduct for Members of the Scottish Parliament” by failing to disclose his shareholding in ANM Group when making representations on the company’s behalf to members of Aberdeenshire Council’s Garioch area committee.
Section 2: Scottish pubs code adjudicator 28. This section establishes a Scottish Pubs Code Adjudicator (a separate office from the Pubs Code Adjudicator that governs a Pubs Code in England and Wales).
In February 2020 the Committee considered an annual monitoring report on Groups' compliance with the Code of Conduct. The Committee agreed to take no action against any Groups who had breached the Code of Conduct due to the restrictions caused by the Coronavirus.
Non-Party Campaigner Campaign Expenditure (Scottish Parliament Elections) Code of Practice 2025 (SG/2025/289) [Draft] Is the committee content that no reporting grounds are engaged?