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How were the levels decided, and why do they differ from the levels that are in the industry’s code of good practice? You are correct that the basis is not published.
Taking the issues in order, the first issue that we experienced yesterday related to the personal identification number code being changed. That was an accidental administrative error, and I fully recognise how much confusion it caused.
Of course, ministers have to be careful about engaging on particular developments because of the need to observe the ministerial code in taking decisions on such questions.
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.”