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There is encouragement for some restoration at the end of the 25-year period of the wind farm licence, but there is no requirement for offsetting. There are voluntary codes, such as the peatland code, that some developers and private organisations sign up to whereby they can choose to contribute in order to offset so...
Like many others, the code of practice will not be part of statute law but the courts will take it into account when considering whether there has been a breach of regulations.
Under what is called the prudential code—which is a general code of guidance, produced by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, the value of which we recognise—local authorities have the power to borrow to fund capital projects.
In addition, households where the heating system has broken down and with a member either over the age of 80 or in receipt of the guarantee element of pension credit will also be priorities for a replacement central heating system.
Medicines is one area in which we already have the technology that we believe could give rise to pragmatic solutions. We have a sophisticated coding and serialisation system for every pack of medicines, which we believe can offer a control that could allow Great Britain packs to be in circulation in Northern Ireland while giving assurance that the EU single...
A large proportion of our workforce are on flexible working contracts; that includes formal flexible working and plenty of informal flexible working arrangements. We have over 100 different codes for flexible working, so you can imagine how many different versions there are.
Would farmers be told, “Okay—produce whatever you want”, and that they could have their own system and their own way of acting, when we have our welfare code? I do not foresee production of lower-quality products happening.
We have had positive discussions, but I would not say that we have achieved our ambitions yet. The set-aside is code for the number of unscheduled care bed nights that an IJB wants to commission from the acute sector.
The arguments on copyright ought not to be playing out in relation to a piece of code in the same way that they do for the latest Hollywood blockbuster.
There was a similar effect on Rosslyn chapel after wild claims were made about it in the “The Da Vinci Code”. Total production spend on film and TV in Scotland has increased by more than 200 per cent since 2007.