F1The Care Quality Commission must, on request, provide the Auditor General for Wales with any information he may reasonably require for the purpose of making comparisons, in the discharge of his functions under sections 145 and 145A of the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38) in relation to a Welsh NHS body, between the Welsh NHS body and English NHS bodies and cross-border SHAs.

Subsection (1) does not require information to be provided in circumstances where (but for that subsection) the disclosure of the information would contravene F2section 76 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (disclosure of confidential personal information: offence).

In this section—

• “English NHS body” has the meaning given by subsection (1) of section 97 of that Act; and

• “cross-border SHA” means a cross-border Special Health Authority as defined by that subsection.