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Churches cry foul as MSPs seek to dilute Holyrood code
Scots Churches are warning MSPs against proposed changes to their own rule book, intended to guard against corruption, which are being voted on today. The joint parliamentary team representing most Scottish denominations, though not the Catholic Church, yesterday took the unusual step of telling MSPs they are failing to live up to the principles of openness on which the Scottish Parliament was founded.The Churches were strongly influential in the political deals that led to devolution.
MSPs will vote today on revisions to their Code of Conduct, which remove some of the obligations they have had over the past eight years. The churches' chief representative at Holyrood, the Rev Graham Blount, said this is being done with little public consultation.
Full story at The Herald.
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