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As I understand it, the committee's interest in the scheme springs from an obligation to ensure that members who participate in it act in a manner that does not conflict with the code of conduct. The committee's ninth report in 2002 states:"The Standards Committee wishes to make it clear that there has been no evidence or allegation of impropriety in relati...
It seems to me that a 14-day gap is not excessive. I believe that, according to the codes of conduct, parliamentary questions and letters from individual members to ministers are supposed to be answered within 10 days.
Confidentiality Item 4 relates to the committee's review of the confidentiality provisions in the code of conduct for MSPs. When we met on 19 June, we agreed that I should seek the views of the conveners liaison group on a paper that sets out the procedures for investigating leaks at Westminster and in the Senate of Canada, where the committee that is invo...
The central registered body is described in the code of practice as an umbrella body, but it happens to be the umbrella body for organisations from the volunteer-engaging sector that want to access the disclosure scheme.
Having read the proceedings of the Standards Committee, I can tell members that the committee is examining the civil service code of conduct and the way in which it relates to our activities.
Mr McLetchie said that choice is available only for those who can afford it, which is code for saying that quality is available only for those who can afford it.
The council will be required to prepare, publish and keep under review employers' codes of conduct and practice. That will include a code of practice for all employers of social services staff, whether local authority, voluntary or private.
If evidence suggested that management behaviour that was not currently a legal requirement should formally be given force, the letting code provisions in section 155 would allow that to be done.