After section 21E of the Local Government Act 2000 insert—
(1)This section applies if an overview and scrutiny committee of a local authority in Wales, or a sub-committee of such a committee, makes a report or recommendations under section 21(2ZA).
(2)The committee or sub-committee may—
(a)send a copy of the report or recommendations to a designated person, and
(b)request the designated person to have regard to the report or recommendations.
(3)In sending a copy of the report or recommendations to the designated person, the committee or sub-committee—
(a)must exclude any confidential information, and
(b)may exclude any relevant exempt information.
(4)If information is excluded under subsection (3), in producing the copy of the report or recommendations the committee or sub-committee—
(a)may replace so much of the report or recommendations as discloses the information with a summary which does not disclose that information, and
(b)must do so if, in consequence of excluding the information, the report or recommendations would be misleading or not reasonably comprehensible.
(5)In this section—
“confidential information” has the meaning given by section 100A(3) of the Local Government Act 1972 (admission to meetings of principal councils);
“designated person” has the same meaning as in section 21;
“exempt information” has the meaning given by section 100I of that Act, and, in relation to any report or recommendations of a committee or joint committee which has functions under section 21(2)(f) of this Act, also includes information which is exempt information under section 186 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006;
“relevant exempt information” means exempt information of a description specified in a resolution of the committee or sub-committee under section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 which applied to the proceedings, or part of the proceedings, at any meeting of the committee or sub-committee at which the report was, or recommendations were, considered.”.