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The report calls on the Scottish Government to lodge an amendment to section 25(2) of the bill, which lists the codes of practice that may be prepared by the tenant farming commissioner and includes a statutory code of conduct for land agents as a priority.
In England, that created a complication for the building control body that deals with the planners because people might choose to build homes at, for example, code level 4 in Norwich but code level 5 in Northampton.
The power to give ministerial directions in respect of certain aspects of the code will mean that, where necessary or appropriate, ministers can direct persons to comply with certain aspects of the code.
We highlight in our submission that the Venice commission “Code of Good Practice on Referendums” states that “funding must be transparent, particularly when it comes to campaign accounts.”
I think that we all want Parliament to get a thorough and comprehensive report that includes all the available details and headline statistics that relate to the target year and are fully compliant with the national statistics code of practice. If the report has to be turned round within a three-month timeframe, Parliament will not receive that.
The assessment has the potential to work if there is the professional and political will to let teachers do that. There have been a couple of coded—perhaps I mean polite—references to the way in which politicians talk about the assessments.
I will quickly take you through the five issues that the SHRC raised in its submission. A code of ethics for policing is already in place, but the SHRC believes that it “should … be placed on a statutory footing.”