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However, I do not think that amendment 122 is necessary, because the “Code of Practice for Statistics” ensures that Government analysts respond to any expression of user interest in there being additional specific content in a statistics bulletin.
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.
On the basis of the work done in the previous presidency, a regulation amending the Schengen borders code to reinforce checks against relevant databases at external borders was adopted.
As the convener said, there may be the opportunity to adopt voluntary codes, but we need local authorities and others to embrace the approach; we can make a transformational change on the ground, but we need to keep pushing at it.
You will see that the sub-committee is to take evidence on the draft stop and search code of practice on 26 January—this coming Thursday—and members of the Justice Committee are more than welcome to attend that meeting or any future meetings of the sub-committee.
The last time we considered deer, we were told, “Oh, well, but there’s only been 18 months for the code of practice to be implemented.” With the greatest respect, it always seems to be a matter of mañana.
What are those barriers for your industry? Codes and standards. We already manufacture to the European standard and our chief engineer sits on the European standards committee.