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The code is being drafted in close consultation with Whitehall, where the Electoral Administration Bill is currently being considered and in respect of which a similar code is being drawn up.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any plans to update the Scottish Ministerial Code. The Scottish Ministerial Code was first published in August 1999.
Patients with those codes do not have waiting time guarantees, but by the end of 2007 the use of those codes will be abolished and patients will be brought into the guarantee system with new rules on how periods of unavailability will be treated.
I am not against what you suggest and I acknowledge the limitations that we face with regard to changing the highway code, although I support the committee's earlier view that the code merits some attention in that respect.