The Flawed Hamilton Report
An incident involving Mark Macdonald was proposed by Sturgeon to Hamilton, as the principal factor forcing her decision to compile new procedures for dealing with harassment of staff by government ministers.
Had he investigated the incident, Hamilton would have established the truth of the matter which was that the involvement of Swinney and Lloyd with Macdonald had breached the code of conduct for ministers of the government.
Extract from the report.
“On 4 November 2017, during the review process, a Scottish Government Minister resigned his Ministerial post, following allegations made from outside the Scottish Government about his personal conduct. This example reinforced for the Scottish Government the importance of making sure that it had policies and procedures in place which were capable of responding appropriately to such allegations should they arise within the Scottish Government.”
The Hamilton Report
Mark Macdonald- Breach of code of conduct by Swinney and Lloyd
