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Note 2. In 2008-09 a new Designated Receipts Order came into force and £32.2 million due to be paid to HM Treasury was held until completion of the annual audit.
Given that many low earners are in receipt of means-tested benefits and of housing benefit and council tax benefit, they would effectively only have 15p of any pound.
The appointments will be made on merit, regulated by the Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc (Scotland) Act 2003, overseen by the Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland and subject to the code of practice for ministerial appointments to public bodies in Scotland.
Obviously, we talked to the various inspectorates in Scotland that know the prisons and the police services, and who know about the application of the prosecution code by fiscals better than anyone else.
I am slightly confused about that, perhaps because of the colour coding. Will you send the committee the figures that it is based on, as I would find that helpful?
Ideas along the lines of what you are talking about have been floated before. For example, the woodland carbon code and the peatland code were specifically designed to create a mechanism to give private investors in what we might call the corporate social responsibility market confidence that, if they invested in a p...