Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord for raising the point, but I do not think that we are talking about the commissioner’s resources. The commissioner’s resources are modest by comparison. It is his recommendations about the use of other people’s resources that raises the issue of enforcement, not the resources that he will have at his disposal. He will not have the resources to provide new services for elderly people throughout Wales but will recommend the utilisation of services and how resources will best be deployed. He may be entitled to make a recommendation, but he should not be able to enforce other people’s resources to be used in the way that the noble Lord suggests.