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I ask you good ladies to declare, in accordance with section 3 of the “Code of Conduct for Members of the Scottish Parliament”, any relevant interests.
In accordance with section 3.5 of volume 3 of the code of conduct for members of the Scottish Parliament, I invite Christian Allard to declare any interests that are relevant to the committee’s remit.
Are members content to take in private agenda item 3, which is to discuss the evidence heard from the acting Public Appointments Commissioner for Scotland to inform our report on the review of the “Code of Practice for Ministerial Appointments to Public Bodies”?
Alistair Sloan from Inksters Solicitors was of the view that the code of practice is aspirational, noting that the SIC has “very limited powers in respect of that code”.