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The proposed membership of the cross-party group complies with rule 2 in section 8.3 of the code of conduct. I take it that members are content to approve the group.
There is a logic to that approach—if a code of practice is good for one part of the inspectorate's functions, a similar code should be good for another part as well.
We should know what the position is, it should be transparent and there should be codes of practice. Interim codes of practice are at the heart of this proposed bill, but this committee never sees those codes.
The bill is complex and the access code adds further complexities. Do you think that it would be useful to transfer some of the detail from the bill to the access code?
As it noted in the Policy Memorandum, consideration was given as to whether the SFC should have the power to issue codes of conduct (which would go a lot further than this guidance power) but this was not taken forward.
Committee reports
Date published:
10 February 2021
Ed Humpherson states:
For outcome evaluation and measurement data to be published as official statistics, this will require that they are developed by an official statistic producing body in line with the CodeiThe Code of Practice for Statistics sets the standards that producers of official statistics should commit to.