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Background
The Schedule of the Interests of Members of the Scottish Parliament Act 2006 ("the 2006 Act") sets out the registrable financial interests which MSPs and Scottish Law Officers are required to place on their registers of interests and to declare before taking part in any relevant proceedings in Parliament.
Section 2 of the Code of Conduct contain...
The Finance and Constitution Committee will consider and report on the Financial Memorandum and the DPLR Committee must report on any provisions conferring power to make subordinate legislation, or conferring power on the Scottish Ministers to issue any directions, guidance or code of practice.
The Finance and Constitution Committee issued a call for views...
I note that the bill also refers to a code of practice for sustainable and regenerative agriculture; it does not say what that will be, but it says that there will be a code as part of the process.
Indeed. The code will be co-designed by those who will have to deliver on this, but they will also have to meet statutory targets, so the code will have to be robust.
We conducted three compliance assessments on the code of practice. Members will remember that the code was approved by the Parliament in November 2022.