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The reputation of the Parliament depends on a code of conduct for MSPs. We must be able to produce that code of conduct, and the committee has indicated that it wants to do that work.
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.
Members indicated agreement.Cross-party Group Cross-party Group Item 2 is consideration of a proposal from the cross-party group on the media to change its name to the cross-party group on culture and the media and therefore to amend the group's purpose. Although the code of conduct does not explicitly require the committee to approve such changes, the rad...