# The Welsh Elections Financial Assistance Scheme (Disabled Candidates) Regulations 2025, Regulation 15: Reports


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

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/897/regulation/15 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-elections-financial-assistance-scheme-disabled-candidates-regulations-2025/regulation-15
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