This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
First, the committee agrees with the findings in fact and conclusion of the Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland that Annie Wells breached paragraphs 12, 15 and 16 of section 7 of the code of conduct for MSPs by making public press comment in advance of the publication of the Equalities and Human Rights Committee’s report.
I have just narrated the ministerial code and quoted directly from it. The code sets out a process that ministers have to go through with regard to whether legal advice should be divulged.
It also relates to statutory guidance, codes of practice, the gathering of data and evidence on waste, enforcement, and market surveillance coordination.
The Committee agreed with the Commissioner’s findings in fact and conclusion that Maggie Chapman MSP’s conduct in not declaring a financial interest breached the 2006 Act and the Code.
The items considered in private included the Committee's work programme, consideration of complaints, draft Committee reports, revisions to the Code of Conduct for MSPs and draft Standing Order rule changes.