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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.
The bill creates criminal offences and requires ministers to draw up a code, but there is confusion over whether breaking that code constitutes a criminal offence.
That the Local Government Committee in consideration of Standards in Public Life Code of Conduct: Councillors' Code (SE/2001/50), recommends that the Code be approved.