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What is your main problem with the new code? Under the bill, ministers would have control over whether the unspecified code was utilised and might put in place some other code.
The commitments to developing the code with regulators and other interested parties, and to ensuring that the code is subjected to parliamentary scrutiny is part of that process.
It was confirmed at that meeting that the Crown’s sole concern was one paragraph in its article about the former First Minister’s ministerial code submission. No other concerns were raised, and no other concerns have been raised subsequently.