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There are issues to be bottomed out in relation to public safety and public expectations about where records are held, and codes are required to enable professionals to understand what they need to do.
The cabinet secretary has also suggested that she is keen to look “innovatively” at those benefits. Is that perhaps code for cuts, or does innovative and appropriate targeting mean something different in this context?
Each council must satisfy itself that its prudential borrowing is sustainable under the prudential code, so from that point of view they must have taken a view that their revenue budgets were sufficient to allow them to borrow.
The approach is outlined in clause 12 of the Press Complaints Commission’s code, which is on discrimination. As with the casual use of sectarian language, ignorance or lack of intent is no excuse.We need to take an empirical approach to prescribing treatment.
However, after 10 years, we have rightly taken the opportunity, where appropriate, to modernise our interpretation code. Part 1 contains provisions that will apply only to the interpretation of future acts of the Scottish Parliament.
I also commend the Government’s support for CodeClan, which aspires to be a world-class coding academy that creates a new generation of software developers and plays a leading role in accelerating Scotland’s progress in building a high-performance digital economy.