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As with all national statistics, Government Expenditure & Revenue Scotland (GERS) is regularly reviewed by the UK Statistics Authority to ensure that it meets the standards set out in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 March 2016
As with all national statistics, Government Expenditure & Revenue Scotland (GERS) is regularly reviewed by the UK Statistics Authority to ensure that it meets the standards set out in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.
The ACAS code of practice promotes fairness and transparency within workplaces, but officers have the right to seek redress to a finding of a misconduct process through an employment tribunal or judicial review.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 April 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how many bed days were occupied by patients categorised as code 9 in each of the five years to March 2014, also broken down by NHS board.
The effect of amendment 233A would be that, after each review of the code of practice, regulations would have to be laid for a new code to come into effect, whether or not the code had been changed.
Some of them could have been but, to date, ministers have preferred that the industry have its own code and for that code to be flexible and updated, as opposed to there being a statutory code, which, by its nature, can become out of date quickly.
The further guidance that is mentioned in the addition to the code of conduct that is proposed to the committee tries to cover those sensitivities as far as is useful.
When I raised a point of order on 9 December last year about ministers committing to providing information to Parliament and then offering to release it in a different way—that is, not through a statement or to Parliament—you said:“The ‘Scottish Ministerial Code’ states: ‘The Scottish Government should be accountable to the Scottish Parliament’.”
That is because the point at which a hearing is convened and a chair is in conversation with a child is far too late for a child to be informed for the first time about the availability of advocacy—that should have already happened, as is recognised in the code of practice that underpins the scheme, which has run successfully for the past five years.