Our new rules for Ministers and to make government work better:
• No pledges, no placards, no selfies. If you wouldn’t put it in a press release, don’t say it on social media.
• Only legislate where change is genuinely needed.
• Question hard everyone asking you to change the law, whoever they are.
• Cut the number of Ministers, special advisers and advisory groups.
• Improve civil service training and development. Focus on core skills, including mediation, negotiation, equality impact assessments and balancing competing interests.
• Extend freedom of Information legislation to cover organisations with over 50% public funding.
• Government press officers must be unfailingly helpful to political journalists.
One of a number of responses in The Herald https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/24298775.first-minister-day
Can also be read at https://archive.ph/FWN8a