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They seemed to be a series of jargon-speak joined together into paragraphs that did not make any sense. Perhaps it was a code that the Government understood, but, as a human being, I could not understand it, so I am with the convener on that.
It went on to say: “The Scottish Government’s approach is aligned with that of the UK Government and Welsh Government in awaiting the EHRC’s revised statutory code of practice.” I must say that that is a rather peculiar statement.
Will he support me in the calls that I have made in the past year to ensure not only that community engagement and community benefit are made mandatory by the UK Government, but that codes of practice are associated with both things?
As members will appreciate, the ministerial code requires that I respect the confidentiality of advice that is given, and I am not able to get into the details of that now.
It is just that there is another convener in the Parliament who uses his pen to get the members to wind up, and I thought that I perhaps need to start using that code as well. Laughter. We have gone over our time, but one thing that concerns me is orphan buildings.
We are not in a position to say which coding language people need to learn for next year or which networks people have to be up to speed on for whatever happens to be needed.
Although a lot of that was direct Covid mortality, we also saw a rise in indirect mortality from other causes, and we are not as clear about what is behind that. Some of it might be coding issues, where Covid is a contributing factor but is not recorded as part of people’s journey.