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To ask the Scottish Government how many young people will be assigned a (a) red, (b) amber and (c) green code under Skills Development Scotland's new career guidance system.
The Highways Agency on behalf of the Department for Transport has published a Code of Practice and Operating Guidance on Abnormal Load Escorting which gives guidance on when an escort vehicle is required.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 November 2011
It is the practice of successive governments, reflected in the Scottish Government Ministerial code and FOI (Scotland) Act 2002, that the fact and legal content of legal advice is not disclosed.
Prior to the Public Audit Committee’s inquiry, I heard that the Scottish Funding Council keeps a list of the colleges that are in the bleakest financial state and was told that there is a colour-coding system in which those colleges are coded black.
Chamber 10 Desk clerks cannot advise on declaring an interest but advice can be sought from the clerks of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee and detailed guidance can be found in the Code of Conduct for Members of the Scottish Parliament.
The Bill reforms certain aspects of the law relating to Scottish parliamentary and local government elections including: • the length of terms to be set; • the role of the Electoral Commission around Scottish elections and that it is accountable to the Scottish Parliament for such work; • providing the Electoral Commission with the power to make relevant codes of practice for various matters in relation to devolved Scottish elections and that it consults with the Scottish Ministers and the Scottish Parliament where appropriate; and • that the SPCB will now fund the Electoral Commission’s role in devolved Scottish elections.
At the moment, the data in question can be used only for the investigation of road traffic offences, but I understand that the detail of the relevant offences will be included in the code of practice and the regulations that are being drawn up.
Setting out a framework is one thing, but what will matter most is what goes into the guidance and code of practice. That is harder to define and put together than the primary legislation.