This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-14208 by Mr Jack McConnell on 29 May 2001, when a report on its consultation on the Schools Scotland Code 1956 will be published. 67 detailed responses on the future of the Code's provisions were received.
We have noted that the bill makes provision for the Scottish ministers to issue a code for councillors, but to require the public bodies to prepare their own codes.
The only provisions in the Scottish Ministerial Code, which apply directly to ministerial parliamentary aides, are those in paragraphs 4.6 - 4.13 of the code, which set out their role and arrangements for their appointment.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 October 2001
I now understand that CoSLA has reached the view that the issues they were considering cannot be satisfactorily addressed through the provision of a code and has decided to abandon its work on the code of practice on school closures.
The code has been the subject of considerable consultation and I hope that the final code of practice will be useful to people who perform duties under the act.
The Board of Management of Aberdeen College, the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission and the Parole Board for Scotland did not have codes approved at 1 May 2003. A code has now been approved for the Board of Management of Aberdeen College.There are a number of outstanding issues surrounding the production of codes for the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission and the Parole Board.