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Code of Conduct Under agenda item 3, we need to plan out in detail what we are going to do in relation to our review of the code of conduct for members, particularly the mechanics of the consultation.
We are on agenda item 1. On section 34, "Animal welfare codes", we asked the Executive why there is no provision for prior consultation on the revocation of a code, as there is for the publication of a code.
Examples of what the codes might look like are available in the equivalent codes that were produced under the Freedom of Information Act 2000—those codes can be found on the Lord Chancellor's website.
If we are to go down Lord James's suggested road of having a voluntary code, we should have more information from the people doing the lobbying on which to base that code.
I assure her that I am probably more aware than any other member is of the demands of not only our code of conduct but the register of interests and the ministerial code.
It was stated in the council's opening remarks that there was more than one instance of gold plating in the codes because the rules, regulations and codes go further than the council feels the directive requires.