194Chief executive must report annually on exercise of specified powers

1. The chief executive must include in every annual report prepared by the Parliamentary Service for the purposes of section 43 of the Public Finance Act 1989—

2. the number of occasions on which a specified power was exercised in the period covered by the report; and
3. the following information about any internal complaints process:
   1. the number of complaints about the use of powers authorised by this Part received in the period covered by the report:
   2. which power gave rise to each complaint:
   3. progress on considering each complaint:
   4. the outcome of the consideration of each complaint.

4. In this section,—

   internal complaints process means a process that—

   1. is established and operated by the chief executive; and
   2. can be used by a person who wishes to complain about a parliamentary security officer exercising a power under this Part

   specified power means—

   1. a power exercised under any of the following sections:
      1. sections 168(3), 169(3), 172(3)(b) and (5), 173(2)(b), 174(2)(a), 176(5), and 182(2) (which authorise a parliamentary security officer to deny entry to, or remove a person from, the parliamentary precincts):
      2. section 178(1) (which authorises a parliamentary security officer to seize an item); and
   2. a power exercised under a section specified in section 193(1).