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Let me read out what the ministerial code of conduct says: “It is of paramount importance that Ministers give accurate and truthful information to the Parliament, correcting any inadvertent error at the earliest opportunity.”
An example of that relates to the stop and search code of practice: the CRWIA and responses to the consultation shaped revisions of the draft code and identified the need to include a separate section to deal exclusively with children and young people.
The regulators are there from a retail perspective to monitor compliance with market codes; they do not have a direct input into any organisation’s acquisition strategy.
During the Covid pandemic, many local authorities have adopted innovative ways to ensure that people have had access to free products, including the provision of voucher codes for online redemption via suppliers.
However, there seems to be a problem with the code of conduct under the Property Factors (Scotland) Act 2011, as factors are saying that it is difficult to instruct works in that way.
The legislation is the umbrella, then there are lots of regulations and codes of practice. I have talked to the commission about how much we can do in statute to endeavour to drive out bad practice, such as things that happened during the Brexit referendum.