Clause 70 - Welsh NHS bodies
Public Audit (Wales) Bill [Lords]
3:45 pm
Mr Bill Wiggin (Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, Local and Devolved Government Affairs; Leominster, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 42, in page 41, line 24, leave out subsection (2).
This probing amendment would delete clause 70(2), which deals with transitional provisions. The amendment is designed to find out the length of current appointments of local authority auditors under the Audit Commission Act 1998 before new appointments are made under clause 13. I seek an assurance from the Minister that the purpose of the Bill, which is to put the Auditor General in charge of local authority audits in Wales, cannot be frustrated.