Section 8B — Welfare Reform Act 2012: Annual reports

Annual reports 8B 1 Before each anniversary of the coming into force of this section the Commission must publish a report setting out its views on the progress made towards the goals in subsection (2).

2 Those goals are—

a improving social mobility in the United Kingdom, and b reducing child poverty in the United Kingdom, and in particular—

i meeting the targets in sections 3 to 6 in relation to the target year, and ii implementing the most recent UK strategy.

3 A report under subsection (1) must also describe—

a the measures taken by the Scottish Ministers in accordance with a Scottish strategy, b the measures taken by the Welsh Ministers in accordance with a Welsh strategy, and c in the case of a report made after the appointed day for Northern Ireland, the measures taken by the Northern Ireland departments in accordance with a Northern Ireland strategy.

4 A report under subsection (1) may by published as one or more documents as a Minister of the Crown may direct.

5 If the Commission so requests, a Minister of the Crown may by order extend the publication deadline for any particular report by not more than nine months.

6 A Minister of the Crown must lay a report under this section before Parliament.