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National Health Service (Availability Status Codes) To ask the Scottish Executive what progress the national health service has made on its policy of phasing out availability status codes.
That would be better than writing such guidance into the code of conduct, which would put us in danger of not only tying everybody up in red tape but the code not working as it is intended to work.
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.
In view of the report and the evidence in front of us, I agree that Dr Simpson has not breached the code of conduct. I, too, have read the report, which makes it very clear that Dr Simpson has not breached the code of conduct.