Regulation 15 Reports
No later than 6 months after the day of the poll of a Welsh election, the scheme operator must publish a report.
The report must include details of—
the number of approaches made to the scheme operator for financial assistance;
the number of applications received, approved and rejected;
the nature of the candidates’ disabilities together with details of the support required for which financial assistance was requested;
circumstances when financial assistance was approved but not paid within a timescale that enabled the candidate to be assisted, and the reasons why;
the amount of financial assistance provided including a breakdown of the payments made;
the occasions when notice was provided by the scheme operator requiring the repayment of any part of financial assistance paid to a person under the financial assistance scheme;
feedback from candidates about their experience of using the financial assistance scheme.
The report published under paragraph (1) must—
be in an anonymised format;
not include information capable of identifying a candidate as the recipient of the approved financial assistance;
not contravene data protection legislation (within the meaning of the Data Protection Act 2018f1).
Annotations
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