Clause 5
Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Bill [Lords]
12:45 pm
Cheryl Gillan (Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, Wales; Chesham and Amersham, Conservative)
Clause 5 sets out what the commission may do in determining whether arrangements for advocacy, complaints and whistleblowing are effective in safeguarding and promoting the interests of relevant older people in Wales. Subsection (3) provides that
“The Commissioner may also assess the effect on relevant older people in Wales of a person’s failure to make any such arrangements.”
I want to probe the Minister’s thinking about whether a timeline is envisaged for the commissioner in assessing the effect of a person’s failure to make such arrangements. If there are severe failures in advocacy, complaints or whistleblowing arrangements, the timeliness of an investigation, report and assessment is critical. I wonder whether the Minister has anything in his great book of words that would enlighten us on that, or if it is something that he would prefer to come back to me on.