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The sexual orientation and religion questions are voluntary, because that is in effect hard-coded into the primary legislation. It was left to an exercise of subordinate legislation powers to make the trans question voluntary, so the 2019 act paved the way for getting to where we are.
From our perspective, the tools fit nicely with our codes of practice on the values, behaviours, skills and competencies that workers are required to have in delivering care.
The matter was not called up as a potential breach of the code of conduct. Perhaps more importantly, Scotland’s chief statistician did not say anything.
I had long and detailed discussions with the Taiwanese authorities about the lot codes on Scotch whisky bottles. A key concern for the industry in exporting to Taiwan is to ensure that those lot codes remain intact and sacrosanct.