Part 2: The Domestic Abuse Commissioner Section 16: Duty to respond to Commissioner’s recommendations
This section requires a public authority listed in section 15 and a Minister in charge of a ministerial government department to respond to any recommendations directed to that authority which is made in a report published by the Commission under section 8. The response must address each recommendation and specifically state what action the authority or Minister has or will take to address the recommendation or give reasons why they do not propose to act on the recommendation.
	A public authority’s or Minister’s response to any recommendations must be published within 56 calendar days of the date of publication of the Commissioner’s report in such a manner as the public authority or Minister, as the case may be, considers to be appropriate (subsections (5) and (6)); they are also required to send the response to the Commissioner and, in the case of public authorities, to the Secretary of State (subsection (7)).