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Other than the initial workload of assessing and approving the draft code, the workload—which will consist of dealing with breaches of the code—will not be huge.
If we do not have that information, which precedes the code of practice, it will be impossible to work out whether the code of practice, once it has been adopted, has made a difference.
I missed out an important point that I might have mentioned had Mr McKie asked me further about the details of the code. In finalising the code of construction practice, the contractor will be required to prepare his or her own code, which fully complies with the code that we have set up to date.
The bill as introduced stipulated that those bodies did not have to "have regard to" the code, but it suggested that they could be among the bodies to which the code of practice would give guidance.