Difference between revisions of "Scottish Parliament Business Exchange"

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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]]

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 ==The Reality==
+==Members==
+*BAA Scottish Airports,
+*British Energy,
+*[[BP]],
+*ConocoPhillips, *Chevron Texaco, *Deutsche Bank AG, *Essentiagroup, *IBM, *Lloyds TSB Scotland, *[[Scottish Council Development and Industry]], *[[Scottish Enterprise]], *Scottish Financial Enterprise, *[[Scottish Parliament]], *[[Scottish Power]] plc, *[[Shell]] International, *[[Scottish and Southern Energy]], [[Shepherd & Wedderburn]] W.S.,[[Pfizer]] Ltd, *The [[Royal Bank of Scotland]] Group, [[VisitScotland]], [[SELECT]], [[ArupScotland]], [[General Medical Council]], [[Royal Botanic Garden]] Edinburgh; [[Highland Airways]].
 ==Spinwatch Resources==