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I am now walking in a landscape that I do not know, but I would suggest that we add the question of consultation to the list of strategic issues that we might wish to discuss at some future date. The Executive has codes of accepted practice that determine when and how it consults, but that is not the same as statutory consultation.
Was John Rafferty sacked for lying to the press and the public, was he sacked for a breach of the civil service code or was there some other reason why, after a week of dithering, the First Minister withdrew his support from Mr Rafferty?
There is another element in the pipeline that Nicola has not mentioned: the consultation on the schools code, which is raising these issues again.I would not want to say that the SJNC has been all bad, but it has been clumsy.
(S2O-5655) We will publish a voluntary code of practice on odour control in April and we will consult on a statutory code in the autumn with the intention of bringing it into force in April 2006 in line with the provisions of the Water Services etc (Scotland) Bill.
I assure her that I am probably more aware than any other member is of the demands of not only our code of conduct but the register of interests and the ministerial code.