13Strategic plans
(1)The Commissioner must, as soon as reasonably practicable after the Commissioner’s appointment, prepare and publish a strategic plan.
(2)A strategic plan is a plan setting out how the Commissioner proposes to exercise the Commissioner’s functions in the period to which the plan relates, which must be not less than one year and not more than three years.
(3)A strategic plan must in particular—
(a)state the Commissioner’s objectives and priorities for the period to which the plan relates;
(b)state any matters on which the Commissioner proposes to report under section 8 during that period;
(c)state any other activities the Commissioner proposes to undertake during that period in the exercise of the Commissioner’s functions.
(4)The Commissioner must, before the end of the period to which a strategic plan relates (“the current period”)—
(a)prepare a strategic plan for a period immediately following the current period, and
(b)publish that plan.
(5)At any time during the period to which a strategic plan relates, the Commissioner—
(a)may revise the strategic plan, and
(b)must publish any revised plan.
(6)In preparing or revising a strategic plan, the Commissioner must consult—
(a)the Secretary of State,
(b)the Advisory Board established under section 12, and
(c)such other persons as the Commissioner considers appropriate.
(7)The Commissioner must arrange for a copy of any plan (or revised plan) published under this section to be laid before Parliament.