Scottish Parliament Business Exchange

SPBE claims

Members sign up to, and programmes are planned and delivered, under certain key principles

Non-lobbying and non-partisan

Mutual trust - access to learning with respect for highly sensitive information (commercial/political)

Transparent and open

Responsive to the interests of MSPs

	Policies safeguarding these principles include:

letter of undertaking from participants and hosts respectively, relating to placement programmes

acknowledging, where appropriate, specific programme topics subject to commercial confidentiality

publication by The Exchange of programme costs

guidelines to MSPs from Clerk to Standards Committee on registration of interests

surveys of MSPs' interests and circulating of programme ideas for MSPs' responses Source: [1]

David Miller, a question of privilege Spinwatch, Nov-Dec 2002 David Miller, Corporate power, institutional corruption, Spinwatch, September/October 2003 David Miller, Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution Spinwatch, 6 September 2004

SPBE website [2]]