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On Professor Reay’s point—I defer to his knowledge—does the panel agree that there is an opportunity with the proposed agriculture bill that the Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy has said he will introduce to deliver a half-way house between regulation and the voluntary code of practice? For example, to qualify for future support, farmers could have a...
Members will also note that the DPLR Committee is content with the aspect of the LCM that refers to masts and the communication code, which relates to our remit. Its concerns relate to the data-sharing aspect of the LCM.
Please note that I raise it not under the Scottish ministerial code, for which you have no remit, but under the code of conduct for MSPs, which applies to us all.
I understand that we might want the code of practice, rather than the bill, to refer to the European standard, because a code can be more readily changed than a bill.
We have a sense of impartiality and fairness that stems from that code and which also goes back to our values, as STV, over 60-plus years.Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, Official Report, 25 April 2023
Under-reporting and lack of coverage
The Committee received evidence that women's sport is commonly under-represented in the media.
Some of those issues are covered by the Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014 and the victims’ code. I think that the issues that the individual raised earlier applied even before the court stage.
It is probably always scary being a teacher, but if the kids all get it and the teacher does not get it, but is expected to teach coding or programming, that is really scary.