Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Bill [HL]

As indeed am I. My noble friend asks why the term ““monitor”” is not used in Clause 3 but is used in Clause 5. The term ““review””, as I said with regard to Clause 3, is inclusive of monitoring activity. Use of that term therefore enables the commissioner to review and monitor the discharge of functions by a person listed. The terms ““review”” and ““monitor”” are used independently of each other in Clause 5 because the commissioner’s functions include not only the reviewing of advocacy, complaints and whistle-blowing arrangements made by persons listed, but also the monitoring of the operation of those arrangements. So it is not only the arrangements themselves that he will be able to look at but also the operation of those arrangements. This is to ensure that the arrangements that are put in place are adhered to in practice.