Duty to respond to consultation: annual reports
24.—(1) Each specialist consultee which is, by virtue of section 54 of the 2004 Act and article 23, under a duty to respond to consultation must give to the Welsh Ministers, not later than 1 July in each year, beginning with the 1 July 2017, a report as to that specialist consultee’s compliance with section 54(4) of the 2004 Act.
(2) Each specialist consultee which is, by virtue of article 10 under a duty to respond to pre-application consultation must, in the report given to the Welsh Ministers in accordance with paragraph (1), include a report as to the specialist consultee’s compliance with that article.
(3) The report must relate to the period of 12 months commencing on 1 April in the preceding year (“the report year”).
(4) The report must contain, in respect of any report year, a statement as to—
(a)the number of occasions on which the specialist consultee was consulted;
(b)the number of occasions on which a substantive response was provided;
(c)when the substantive response was provided; and
(d)the number of occasions on which the specialist consultee gave—
(i)a substantive response outside the period prescribed for the purposes of section 54(4) of the 2004 Act or, as the case may be, the period specified in or referred to in article 10(1); and
(ii)a summary of the reasons why.
(5) In this article “substantive response” (“ymateb o sylwedd”) means either a substantive response to the applicant or a substantive response to the Welsh Ministers or both in accordance with articles 10 and 23.