...bodies. Its role is to strengthen ethical standards in public life; including promoting the Codes of Conduct and issuing guidance to councils and devolved public bodies; and to adjudicate on...
...greater transparency around direct ministerial appointments and agreement to our recommendation that appointments of Non-Executive Directors of government departments will in future be regulated under the Governance Code for Public...
...in both Houses of Parliament would be subject to an independent and impartial process dedicated to upholding the new Behaviour Code. Recognising the importance of these reforms to the way...
...where appropriate informally. However, we made a number of recommendations to strengthen and clarify the system including a new model code of conduct, stronger safeguards for managing conflicts of interests...
