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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?
That is a matter for the ministerial code of conduct, which is something that ministers take very seriously indeed.Antisocial Behaviour Antisocial Behaviour Resumed debate.
Whether the First Minister is technically in breach of the ministerial code is a matter on which I suspect no definitive or objective judgment will ever be made.
All of them invoke commercial copyright to prevent anyone else looking at their computer code. I do not think that the computer code in any computer system should be secret; the computer code should be published, like a bill, so that other people—there are many computer progra...
The debate in the Justice 2 Committee alluded to some guidance, but the guidance, although it is good, is a voluntary code rather than a compulsory one. More could be done in the bill to make good conduct compulsory.
The directions will complement the existing overarching code of practice on litter and refuse and they will enable guidance to be given quickly in specific circumstances.