Schedule 2 - Minor and consequential amendments
Public Audit (Wales) Bill [Lords]
3:45 pm
Mr. Wiggin: I beg to move amendment No. 44, in page 56, line 8, at end insert—
'(c) the functions of the Auditor General for Wales under sections 41 and 42 of the Public Audit (Wales) Bill 2004.'.
The amendment is an alternative to our new clause after clause 42, and would ensure that if the Auditor General does not have the power to study English bodies, the Audit Commission will, at the very least, have a duty to co-operate in respect of the functions of the Auditor General under clauses 41 and 42. I suspect that the Audit Commission will co-operate, but it does not necessarily have a duty to do so, so we are pressing for that here.