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Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 10:"Page 2, line 5, after ““review”” insert ““and monitor””" The noble Lord said: My Lords, the argument about the amendment has changed somewhat since the Government introduced their amendments to Clause 5. Our argument was that if monitoring was necessary in the context of Clause 5 it was necessary in Clause 3. The Government have argued that reviewing includes monitoring, and have decided by their Amendment No. 17 to remove the words,"““and monitor the operation of””," from Clause 5, and to deepen the review procedure in that clause by Amendment No. 18. They have at least achieved consistency, but I would still like to see monitoring by the commissioner added to his ability to review the discharge of functions by all who come under his purview, for the reason that I am about to give the Minister, which I know he will appreciate. The Oxford English Dictionary tells us that to review something is, at most, to,"““survey, to take a survey of””." That is surely for our purposes just the first step and not necessarily inclusive of any action. In the same dictionary we find that to monitor something is to,"““observe, supervise, or keep under review; to keep under observation; measure or test at intervals””—" here is the important point—"““especially for the purpose of regulation or control””." I think that that settles the difference between us. I beg to move.