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Perhaps the commissioner's work load could be considered in terms of annex 5 of the code of conduct, which deals with the relationship between constituency and regional MSPs.
It helps if members are quiet when I put questions.The first question is, that motion S1M-3386, in the name of Mike Rumbles, on behalf of the Standards Committee, on the "Code of Conduct for Members of the Scottish Parliament", be agreed to.
During the miners' strike, when miners were going up and down the country, some of the codes of practice to which you referred were used to round them up.
The non-statutory framework consists of "The Safe Sludge Matrix" and the code of practice on the prevention of environmental pollution from agriculture activities.
Not least because of Susan Deacon's campaigning, there was a big advance in this area due to the Water Services etc (Scotland) Act 2005. We have a Scottish Executive code that means that there is a requirement on Scottish Water to do the necessary work.
It also removes the possibility of a recurrence of the offence, if it is found at a later stage that an offence has been committed under the code. If there was no power of interim suspension, a public body or a local authority could be left open to claims of negligence by employees who were harmed if reoffending took place in the period between the commissi...
It is particularly important that codes of practice prepared by the CRE should be the subject of consultation with the Scottish Executive—just as, in the past, Scottish Office ministers in the UK Parliament were able to have an input into such codes.