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The committee notes that Mr Morrison accepts responsibility, and notes also the commissioner's conclusion that the circumstances did not constitute a breach of the code. The committee accepts the commissioner's findings on the facts of the complaint and agrees with his conclusion that Mr Morrison did not breach the code of conduct for MSPs.
We want the commissioner to consult Scottish ministers and the Parliament when drawing up the code. Secondly, the commissioner will oversee compliance with the code by ministers.
The commission must work within the framework of the codes and we need to allow time to assess their impact.The Standards Commission has been involved in the production of the codes of some 140 public bodies.
If we are to go down Lord James's suggested road of having a voluntary code, we should have more information from the people doing the lobbying on which to base that code.
The purpose of schedule 9 is to apply the statutory codes relating to utility apparatus. The statutory code governing the provision of telecommunications apparatus is the code set out in schedule 2 to the Telecommunications Act 1984, which was originally called the telecommunications code.