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]]