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I cannot understand how that meets the obligations of our standing orders, which ensure that the code of conduct is followed by members, regardless of how senior their position is in Government.
Craig Hoy was quite right to say that she might have broken the ministerial code, but we have a broken system, whereby the First Minister marks their own homework and that of wayward ministers.
As for the question about the constitution budget, I suspect that that was code for Government’s commitment to spending £20 million on a referendum on independence.
Is any other health board in Scotland warning that it, too, could declare a code black or, to give it its correct term, the highest risk level, which is black?
We have heard that the UN Secretary General has called the IPCC’s report “code red for humanity”. He warned: “This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet.”
Napoleon had le grande chiffre—the great code. Common letters of the alphabet were not always coded in the same way, so that people could not break it by analysing frequency.
Does the committee agree to ask the Scottish Government for an explanation of why it has been considered appropriate that the section does not include requirements for persons to comply with the code or have regard to the code, and why it has been considered appropriate that the section does not contain any sanction or enforcement provision in relation to a breach of the code?