Committee on Standards in Public Life: Defining the boundaries within the Executive: Ministers, Sp…
R9-1
Published April 2003
Response position and delivery status are recorded separately. Acceptance does not establish implementation.
Recommendation (the Committee's words)
(a) Material currently contained in the Ministerial Code which covers departmental and parliamentary custom and practice should be published separately as a Ministerial Handbook.
(b) The substantive material on issues of conduct should form a new Ministerial Code, which should be defined as having equal weight and authority to the Civil Service Code and the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers. (page 22)
(b) The substantive material on issues of conduct should form a new Ministerial Code, which should be defined as having equal weight and authority to the Civil Service Code and the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers. (page 22)
From: Committee on Standards in Public Life, Defining the boundaries within the Executive: Ministers, Special Advisers and the permanent Civil Service, April 2003