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We also request further details from the Scottish Government on the development and publication of the new agricultural pollution code of conduct highlighted to us in evidence.
The standards commissioner concludes that Mrs Gillon is in breach of paragraph 2.4 of the code but that there has not been a breach of paragraph 9.1.1 of the code.
Today, we are discussing the access code and it is clearly not the code's job to resolve that issue.However, the code sets down certain principles that are relevant to the matter.
CPGs are not formal Parliament business, however they must follow the rules about CPGs in the Parliament's Code of Conduct for MSPs in the Scottish Parliament.
That would be better than writing such guidance into the code of conduct, which would put us in danger of not only tying everybody up in red tape but the code not working as it is intended to work.
In view of the report and the evidence in front of us, I agree that Dr Simpson has not breached the code of conduct. I, too, have read the report, which makes it very clear that Dr Simpson has not breached the code of conduct.
Employers and pension providers would have to apply a different rate of allowances, and presumably therefore a different tax code, to their Scottish taxpayers than to taxpayers in the rest of the UK.
To be a constructive partner in the project, the SNP must end its endless search for coded formulations of independence—fiscal autonomy, full fiscal responsibility or whatever it is going to be today.