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Today, Heineken was rightly fined £2 million for serious breaches of the statutory pubs code in England and Wales, yet there is no statutory regulation of the pub code here in Scotland.
We have talked a bit about poor understanding of career opportunities in engineering and computer science and coding. Is there not the opposite problem that one of the reasons why computer science teachers cannot be recruited is that they can be paid a lot more for working in industry?
It is partly an IT project, and it is partly a culture change project—as is the case for all IT projects—in order to simplify time-recording codes and so on behind the scenes. We have a good project team working on it and we have had lots of dialogue in the business about it.
In her submission, the Cabinet Secretary for the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform notes that any change to the code of practice does not change the law.
A lot of the engagement is between our officials and civil servants, and there is a code that governs that. I come back to my earlier point about independence and impartiality.
All that amendment 55 seeks to do is to create a code of practice to ensure that assisted dying interacts appropriately with hospices and other providers of palliative and end-of-life care.
We support the Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance’s definition of independent advocacy and the practice around it, working alongside the principal standards and codes of practice. That is important to protect the practice of independent advocacy and to define it correctly.
The Scottish Government ensures the list of gifts received by ministers is published on a quarterly basis in line with the Scottish Ministerial Code. S4W-28602