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The wording of amendment 57 is drawn from wording that we already have on the statute book in the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016, which provides for the legal status of codes of practice on police searches that are to be made by ministers.
The report states: “The 2016/17 relocation expenses payment was processed as a BACS payment rather than through the payroll system. It had been coded incorrectly ... as childcare vouchers.”
The young people take responsibility for the ethos. We encourage anti-bullying codes of behaviour. That involves the adults working with young people, if there are challenges, to think about how they will work as a group.
I am constrained in explaining the substance of advice and also whether advice has been taken—I think that that is the convention that applies to ministers; if that is not the correct application of the code, I am prepared to stand corrected.
Such questions are matters for the ministerial code and should be pursued directly with the Scottish Government.Population Population To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government’s response is to Scotland’s population rising to an all-time high of 5.4 million.
One can look, for example, to France, where the famous wee red book, the “Code civil”, which has been in force for 200 years, had one of its most fundamental reforms in October.
One question is, how can the Scottish Government enforce its own code of practice on non-native species when the decision to allow ballast water discharge is taken by a body external to Scotland that is acting contrary to SEPA’s advice?