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They would require the Chief Constable to prepare and maintain a Code of Ethics and would place an explicit duty of candour on both individual officers and the organisation as a whole.
It agrees with the findings in fact and conclusion of the Commissioner that Ms Hamilton did not breach the statutory or the Code of Conduct requirement to make an oral declaration of her interests in relation to the Parliamentary Question that she asked on 29 November 2018 at First Minister's Questions.
Recommendation
The Committee has considered the LCM on the Parking (Code of Practice) Bill and arrived at the following recommendations —
The Committee recommends to Parliament that it approves the Legislative Consent Memorandum on this Bill.
I do not want the work to be done and the consultation to take place on the publication code only for it not to be approved. The code will not work unless we do it properly and quickly replace what we currently have.
The first recommendation in this report relates to a code of ethics. It was pointed out that Police Scotland’s code of ethics does not have any statutory basis.
To improve the availability and accuracy of data, Long Covid Kids recommended improving awareness and application of standard medical codes for Long Covid in NHS patient databases and improvement of search functions on medical databases to facilitate efficiency in correct coding practices.
Firstly, it agrees with the findings in fact and conclusion of the Commissioner that Annie Wells breached paragraphs 12, 15 and 16 of Section 7 of the Code of Conduct for MSPs.
Secondly, the Committee considers that the breaches justify the imposition of sanctions on Annie Wells.
Part of the £14.4 million other costs was additional costs for manual coding. As part of the rehearsal for the programme, we considered how we run the manual coding element.