Section 95 | Annual reports

(1)As soon as reasonably practicable after the end of each financial year, the Secretary of State must prepare and publish an annual report for that year.

(2)The annual report must include the following—

(a)an assessment of the extent to which enforcement functions of the Secretary of State were exercised in accordance with the applicable strategy during the year;

(b)an assessment of the extent to which the applicable strategy had an effect on the scale and nature of non-compliance with relevant labour market legislation during the year.

(3)Before publishing an annual report under this section, the Secretary of State must consult the Advisory Board.

(4)The Secretary of State must lay before Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly a copy of every annual report published under this section.

(5)In this section—

“the applicable strategy”, in relation to a financial year, means any labour market enforcement strategy published under section 94 that has effect for that year;

“financial year” means—

the period beginning with the day on which this section comes into force and ending with the following 31 March, and

each successive period of 12 months.