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To ask the Scottish Government how many adults with incapacity have been subject to a delayed discharge from hospital that was recorded as a code 9 reason in each year since 1999.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 February 2022
That would require not a change in law but an amendment to the code of practice. That way, we could not be accused of trying to criminalise people, because we just want to redefine the code of practice.
Following publication of the EHRC’s update late on Friday evening, I wrote to ask the EHRC to confirm that it agrees that no public body, service provider or other association should issue specific guidance before the EHRC code of practice and guidance is finalised.
How can the First Minister and her Government have nothing to say about why the person who was running that organisation has left? The ministerial code states: “Information should not be withheld from the public unless there are clear and lawful reasons for so doing.”
The SPICe briefing and the Scottish Government’s response note that “Safety at Street Works and Road Works: A Code of Practice” requires anyone who is undertaking works that require a pedestrian crossing to be suspended to agree with the roads authority what, if any, alternative arrangements will be provided for users of the crossing prior to its suspension...