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Paragraph 12.1 of the Scottish Ministerial Code (Scottish Ministerial Code: 2024 Edition - gov.scot) requires former Ministers intending to publish their memoirs to submit the draft manuscript in good time before publication to the Permanent Secretary and to conform to the principles set out in the Radcliffe Report o...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will work with the Office of the Public Guardian to introduce digital activation codes for lasting powers of attorney, which could reportedly benefit both attorneys and granters.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 September 2021
So far, 9 councils have fully aligned their services with the Code of Practice, these are: Dumfries & Galloway, Dundee City, East Ayrshire, Falkirk, Fife, Moray, Shetland Islands, South Ayrshire, and Stirling.
The bill includes a number of statutory provisions about the code—for example, it requires the commissioner to prepare and review a code, it requires there to be consultation on the content of the code and it requires specified policing bodies to have regard to the code.
Employers sometimes make errors. In the case of the Scottish code, we have found that, in some instances, the software programmes that employers use have not been updated to take account of what we call the S codes—the Scottish taxpayer codes.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 January 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the process used to (a) create, (b) classify and (c) review crime codes relating to vehicle and freight crime in Scotland, and whether it considers that the existing crime codes are sufficient to capture freight and cargo crime accurately.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 September 2025
A note of the meeting was taken in accordance with section 11.14 of the Scottish Ministerial Code. A summary of the meeting was published on the Scottish Government website shortly after the First Minister met with President Trump.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to review the Scottish Outdoor Access Code, as established by the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003, including any impact of access rights on private landholders.
What consideration did you give to that risk? We need to get the code right. The bill is about ensuring that there will be a code and, as part of that code, I want there to be a guest beer right.