Commentary on Sections Part 1 Electoral Administration and Registration Chapter 4: Accessibility and Diversity: Welsh Elections Section 25 – Survey of councillors and unsuccessful candidates in local elections
80.Section 25 amends section 1 of the Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011, which requires local authorities to conduct a survey of councillors and unsuccessful candidates for council elections in their area. Section 25 removes the requirement for the form of the survey and the questions to be set out in regulations and instead, it enables the Welsh Ministers to set these out in a direction to local authorities. Subsection (4) inserts subsection 3A into the 2011 Measure, which requires the Welsh Ministers to publish any direction given under section 1 or section 2 of the 2011 Measure.
81.A direction given to local authorities under amended section 1 could, among other things include questions aimed at identifying the impact of any local initiatives established to improve the diversity of candidate standing in the election for which the survey is being undertaken.