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It would be useful to have some guidance in the code of practice but, as we have learned from previous experience, not enough attention is always paid to the code of practice.
The Public Petitions Committee certainly felt that to deal with the petition in the context of our consideration of the code of practice made sense. Paper 5 sets out two options.
That would be very advisable. Why were the payments coded as childcare vouchers? I was advised by the chief financial officer and the head of financial accounting that a member of the finance staff had made a mistake when they coded the payments.