Subsection (1) requires the Secretary of State (in practice the Home Secretary and Secretary of State for Justice) and the Attorney General to jointly keep under review criminal justice bodies, BTP and MDP’s compliance with the duty in section 5(1) (duty to provide services in accordance the Victims’ Code) ("Code compliance") and to jointly prepare and publish annual reports on Code compliance.
	Subsection (2) provides that the Secretary of State (in practice the Home Secretary and Secretary of State for Justice) and the Attorney General may issue a notice to PCCs or the relevant agency when they agree that the Code compliance of the relevant agency is deemed unsatisfactory.
	Subsection (3) requires that if a notice is issued to a PCC in relation to the chief officer of police for a police area, a copy of the notice must be sent to that chief officer and, in any case, it must be published in such form and manner that the Secretary of State and Attorney General consider appropriate.
	Subsection (4) requires the Secretary of State and the Attorney General to consult the Victims’ Commissioner before publishing the annual report on Code compliance (under subsection 1) and before giving a notice (under subsection 2).
	Subsection (5) requires the Secretary of State to publish such compliance information as the Secretary of State considers will enable members of the public to assess the Code compliance of each criminal justice bodies which provides services in a police area, the BTP and the MDP. Subsection (7)(a) specifies that "compliance information" refers to the information provided to the Secretary of State by PCCs, the BTPA and the MDP under Sections 8(2)(a), 9(5)(a) and 10(4)(b) or information collected under arrangements mentioned in Section 7 (Arrangements for collection of victims’ feedback). Subsection (7)(b) defines the term "code compliance".
	Subsection (8) defines "relevant area" as that which relates to a police force area for criminal justice bodies, or England and Wales for the British Transport Police and the Ministry of Defence Police.
	Subsection (9) states that the Secretary of State and Attorney General’s first annual report on Code compliance may relate to any 12 month period that includes the day on which that section comes into force. Subsection (10) states that any subsequent annual reports must relate to the 12-month period immediately following the 12-month period to which the previous annual report relates. Subsection (11) states that the Secretary of State, in practice the Secretary of State for Justice, must lay each annual report before Parliament.
	Subsection (12)(a) and (b) sets out the frequency at which compliance information or a report must be published and states that the form and manner of such publication is a matter for the Secretary of State as they consider appropriate.
	Subsection (13) provides that PCCs must take reasonable steps to make the public in their local police area aware of the information published by the Secretary of State under subsection (5) where that information relates to their own police force area. A similar duty is not required for the Secretary of State for Defence or BTPA as the data published by the Secretary of State for Justice will already present a national picture, ensuring parity between the non-territorial forces (with national jurisdiction) and territorial forces (whose data would be publicised by their PCC).
	Subsection (14) provides "criminal justice body" in Section 11 has the same meaning as in Section 6(6) (and therefore refers to the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, His Majesty’s Court and Tribunal Service, His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service and its executive agencies (His Majesty’s Prison Service, the Probation Service and the Youth Custody Service), and Youth Offending Teams).
Part 1: Victims of Criminal Conduct Victims’ Code Section 11: Reviewing code compliance: Secretary of State and Attorney General