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At a time when the committee has had other important matters to deal with, including the preparation of a code of conduct, it is good that it has still found time to examine the question of cross-party groups.
At UK level, agreement has been reached with the National Association of Cigarette Machine Operators on a code for their members that would provide clear guidance on the siting arrangements that are expected.
However, there is a significant minority of recommendations which do not appear to have received a formal response from the Scottish Government (17%).
When coding recommendations and government responses it should be noted that the quality of responses did vary depending upon the policy area and Cabinet Secretary they were coming from.
I have a great horror of codes of practice suddenly appearing after legislation is passed and I ask the Executive to consider introducing codes of practice for our consideration at stage 2.