Subsection (1) enables the Commissioner to prepare one or more reports setting out their findings and any recommendations, resulting from a general service welfare investigation carried out under new section 340IA. As previously noted (paragraph 32 above) there is a requirement for the Commissioner to include in their annual report a summary of any findings and recommendations made by the Commissioner in connection with an investigation under new section 340IA during that reporting year, even if these findings and recommendations were not contained in a report prepared under this section.
	Subsection (2) provides that subsection (3) detailed below, applies if the investigation was carried out wholly or partly in response to a request made by an individual.
	Subsection (3) ensures that reports published by the Armed Forces Commissioner after carrying out an investigation into a general service wellbeing matter will not include identifying information about the individual in subsection (2), unless they have consented to this.
	Subsection (4) sets out that where a report is prepared under subsection (1), the Commissioner’s reasons for each of the findings and recommendations must be included in the report, and that the Commissioner must give the report to the Secretary of State as soon as is practical.
	Subsection (5) sets out that the Secretary of State must, on receiving the report, lay it before Parliament promptly and in any event, within 30 sitting days.
	Subsection (6) enables the Secretary of State to exclude from any report any material where they consider its publication would be against the interests of national security or might jeopardise someone’s safety.
Commentary on provisions of the Act Section 4: Commissioner’s role in relation to general Service welfare New Section 340LA – Report and recommendations: general service welfare investigations