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The Government therefore considers that the provisions of the Scottish Ministerial Code, together with the obligations applying to civil servants under the Civil Service Code, provide an appropriate framework regarding candour (Recommendation Paragraph 135).
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 August 2023
Following a full public consultation, a revised Code was introduced in August 2021. The changes ensured that the Code remains up to date and responds to concerns raised by homeowners.
Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend the current guidance on flying recreational drones on national nature reserves (NNRs) to so that: use is prohibited without a permit permits include a flight time, date and agreed flight path operation is in accordance with the drone code advice on the legal status of the wildli...
In addition, the Review discussed the potential for the development of a Code of Practice, building on the existing Scottish Mounted Foxhound Packs Fox Control Protocol, to increase data collection and reporting around, in particular, mounted fox hunts.
This Commissioner, it was recommended, should have sufficient flexibility to embrace future technologies and relevant codes of practice; and the potential to develop a statutory Code of Practice for the use of biometric data in Scotland.
The minister’s response also notes that work has not progressed on the voluntary code of practice as anticipated, and adds that “this code would apply only where homeowners pay a land-owning land maintenance company for management of the open spaces that are owned by the land maintenance company.”
For that reason, the committee must conclude that Jackson Carlaw MSP breached section 13(1) of the 2006 act and paragraphs 6 to 8 of section 2 of the code of conduct for MSPs. The committee therefore agrees with the commissioner’s findings in fact and conclusion that Jackson Carlaw’s conduct in not declaring a financial interest breached the 2006 act and the code.