Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Bill [HL]

My Lords, Amendment No. 19 would enable the commissioner to look at the arrangements that a listed body had in place for implementing the commissioner’s guidance on best practice. It would not, however, enable him to consider whether the guidance itself had been implemented, which from our discussion I believe was my noble friend’s intention. I have therefore tabled Amendment No. 30, which adds two new subsections to Clause 11. They provide that a body that has been issued with best practice guidance by the commissioner must have regard to that guidance in discharging its functions and that, in discharging his functions, the commissioner will consider the extent to which a body has complied with any guidance he has issued. I hope that my noble friend accepts that the explanation that I have just given meets his concerns.