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At stage 1 the committee was exercised by the potential for review of the code of practice. We were concerned that the code should promote best practice, rather than provide a lowest common denominator.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether arrangements have been made to designate receipts to be paid over by Scottish Ministers to the Secretary of State for Scotland.
That will not be appropriate in all situations, but in some key areas we will want to look at issues in more detail, having already investigated them through our primary legislative scrutiny. The access code would be a good example. We had extensive discussion on the code, not only in our committee but in the Justice...
Ministers thereafter announced on 9 February 2005 that a new water charges reduction (of up to 25%) for households with two or more adults and which are in receipt of council tax benefit would take effect from 1 April 2006.