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Some of the issues that have been raised should be referred to the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body because the issues about SPICe resources and so on and are not within the committee's remit.Guidance on contacting Scottish Executive staff—who are still members of the UK civil service and are covered by the employment conditions and code of conduct of ...
That is particularly important when considering the procedures that we are about to set up in the code of conduct.I would now like the committee to consider the complaint against Mike Watson.
I have one brief point of clarification in relation to the code of construction practice. I understand that the code will be incorporated into the contracts between the promoter and the contractor so that there will be an ultimate means of enforcement through that route.
The faculty's handling of complaints allows no consumer redress, so it is based entirely on an internal disciplinary code. The faculty can fine an advocate who transgresses the code.
If that happens, there should be public funding to back it up.Four and a half years into devolution, we are still puzzled about why the code of best practice will not arrive until December 2004.
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Date answered:
20 March 2006