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To ask the Scottish Executive what procedures it has in place to enforce the Scottish Ministerial Code. Copies of the code areprovided to all ministers.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 November 2001
Section 76(5) states:"A relevant person must have regard to the code"in the circumstances indicated. It would be helpful for the code to be laid before the Parliament and widely consulted on.
The Agricultural Industries Confederation’sCode of Practice for the Manufacture of Safe Compound Animal Feedingstuffsis a voluntary code. Hence the relationship between the code and free trade is nota matter for the Scottish Executive.