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I make it clear to the committee that we have always asked for a mandated age restriction. We introduced the voluntary code in 2010, and we are very pleased that it has gone wider than our membership.
Putting in place the suppression system would have been the first thing to be done in terms of building management. The joint code of practice on the prevention of fires in construction sites, which is often referred to, is all about commissioning as early as possible.
From our perspective, the tools fit nicely with our codes of practice on the values, behaviours, skills and competencies that workers are required to have in delivering care.
The matter was not called up as a potential breach of the code of conduct. Perhaps more importantly, Scotland’s chief statistician did not say anything.
The consultations are well summarised in the SPICe note, but I draw the committee’s attention to the consultation on the broadcasting code review, which will see the application in full of the existing code to BBC broadcasting services and, where relevant, to on-demand programme services.
We also need for schools to have a very clear understanding and clear behavioural codes about what behaviours are not acceptable and why—the why is really important.
Since 1990, emissions from industry have fallen sharply, but not because we have cracked the code of industrial decarbonisation. The primary reason for that is that, all too often, plants such as steelworks and paper mills have been closed.