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]
The Reality
Spinwatch Resources
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
http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=304
External links
SPBE website [2]]