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DCS Scott of Police Scotland acknowledged the importance of the public having a right to complain, but felt the “lack of a specific public complaints mechanism” within the Bill would not mean that there is no effective way of dealing with a public complaint on the use of biometrics or compliance with a Code of Practice.iiiJustice Committee, Official Report,...
Dr Graham recommended that an ethics advisory group should be established in time to work with the Scottish Biometrics Commissioner and other relevant stakeholders in drawing up the Code of Practice.
The Cabinet Secretary for Justice, when giving evidence to the Parliament’s Justice-Sub Committee on Policing on 13 June 2019, announced his intention to estab...
Assumptions have been made in colour coding the post-Brexit funding guarantees in Figure 2, due to uncertainties around the exact meaning of the guarantees - see below.
Committee reports
Date published:
19 September 2018
(Scotland) Act 2003 which lists the specified authorities that are subject to section 2 of that Act so must comply with the code of practice published by the Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland.
However, due to the way these procedures are coded, it is not possible to provide accurate data on the number of mesh procedures where complications have occurred.
The Regulatory Regime in Scotland
Like every other sector, salmon farming must comply with a range of legislation, each with its own purpose. Annex 8 of the industry code of good practice for finfish aquaculture1Code of Good Practice for Scottish Finfish Aquaculture.
Although we do not consider that any sanctions are justified in this case, we remind every member of the importance of maintaining the Parliament’s high standard of compliance with all the requirements of the 2006 act and the code of conduct, including the register of interests.
We had a normal exercise between March and April to issue new tax codes. People started the tax year with one tax code in March and then had a new one in April after we issued new codes.
As this is the first meeting of the committee that she has attended, I invite her, in accordance with section 3 of the code of conduct, to declare any relevant interests.