Local Government (Wales) Measure 2009

24 Annual improvement reports

(1) In relation to each Welsh improvement authority, the Auditor General for Wales must produce a report (an “annual improvement report”) for each financial year which summarises or reproduces the reports described in subsection (2).

(2) The reports are—

(a) each report issued in respect of the authority during that financial year under section 19;

(b) any report of a special inspection of the authority issued under section 22 during that financial year.

(3) The Auditor General for Wales—

(a) must publish each Welsh improvement authority’s annual improvement report;

(b) must consider, in the light of an authority’s annual improvement report, whether to—

(i) make a recommendation to a relevant regulator as to how the regulator should exercise relevant functions in relation to the authority;

(ii) make a recommendation to the Welsh Ministers to provide assistance to the authority by exercising their power under section 28;

(iii) make a recommendation to the Welsh Ministers to give a direction to the authority under section 29;

(iv) exercise any of the Auditor General’s functions in relation to the authority;

(c) must make any such recommendation as is mentioned in paragraph (b)(i) to (iii) as the Auditor General considers ought to be made.