Clause 24 - Consideration of reports in public interest
Public Audit (Wales) Bill [Lords]
11:00 am
Mr Bill Wiggin (Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, Local and Devolved Government Affairs; Leominster, Conservative)
We tabled the amendments to ask why there are various lists of bodies in the Bill. Amendment No. 29 would delete the four bodies that are listed in clause 25(3) and replace them with the nine bodies that are listed in clause 12(1). Amendment No. 30 seeks to delete clause 25(3) because we wish to establish why the four types of bodies receive different treatment. These have all doubtlessly been copied from existing legislation, which again highlights the wasted opportunity to consider the audit regime in Wales afresh. I look forward to hearing why those four have been picked out.