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To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of council tax receipts is allocated to contributing to the pensions of local authority staff, also broken down by local authority.
Should we have mandatory supervision levels in codes of practice for nurses, doctors and everyone else—as there are in social care—rather than putting things in statute?
In paragraph 7.7 of the Scottish ministerial code, it says:"in some cases it may not be appropriate for a Minister to provide a reference, even as an MSP."
To ask the Scottish Government how many complaints (a) it, (b) the campaign's advertising agency and (c) any other body received about the Nice Way Code campaign and what the nature was of any such complaints.
We need to tread with a degree of caution on that. It must be a code of practice and no more. It should be about enabling farmers and crofters to take up practices that will suit the code of practice and the outcomes that we are trying to get to, rather than being overly prescriptive.
Craig Hoy was quite right to say that she might have broken the ministerial code, but we have a broken system, whereby the First Minister marks their own homework and that of wayward ministers.