Health and Social Care Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 3:30 pm on 24 January 2008.
Provision of information by Auditor General for Wales
‘(1) The Auditor General for Wales must, on request, provide the Commission with any information it may reasonably require for the purpose of making comparisons, in the exercise of its functions under section 50 so far as relating to health care or English NHS bodies, between English NHS bodies and Welsh NHS bodies.
(2) In this section “Welsh NHS body” has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 (c. 23).’.—[Mr. Bradshaw.]
A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
Printed in the margin next to each clause is a brief explanatory `side-note' giving details of what the effect of the clause will be.
During the committee stage of a bill, MPs examine these clauses in detail and may introduce new clauses of their own or table amendments to the existing clauses.
When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
