New Clause 1 - Commissioner's annual report
Children's Commissioner for Wales Bill
12:30 pm
Mr Robert Walter (North Dorset, Conservative)
I am interested in what the hon. Gentleman has said—I sought to intervene on the hon. Lady, but she sat down before I could do so. The purpose of new clause 1, which proposes that the commissioner should lay his report before Parliament, is to establish a formal link between him and Parliament. If our Select Committee on Health, for example, wished to investigate children's services in the United Kingdom, would it not be appropriate for that Committee to investigate children's services in Wales?