§ Mrs. Chalkerasked the Minister for the Civil Service what has been the cost to public funds in each of the last five years of investigations carried out by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration in total and divided by "finding of maladministration", "finding of partial maladministration", and "no finding of maladministration".
§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisThe expenditure borne on the Vote of the Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration and, since 1973, the in-
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Department 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 2 — — 2 — Customs and Excise — — 1 — 1 Department of Education and Science — 1 1 — — Department of Employment 1 — 1 2 — Department of the Environment — 2 4 6 3 Foreign and Commonwealth Office — — — 1 — Department of Health and Social Security 8 9 9 10 15 Home Office — — — — 1 Inland Revenue 10 20 15 13 9 Ministry of Overseas Development — — — 1 — Public Trustee — — — — 1 Scottish Office — 1 — — — Department of Trade and Industry 2 1 2 — — Welsh Office — — 1 — — tegrated office of the Parliamentary Commissioner and Health Service Commissioners, for each of the last five financial years, is as follows:
These amounts were in addition to the Commissioner's salary and the cost of accommodation and other services borne by the Department of the Environment and Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
£ 1971–72 … … … 162,012 1972–73 … … … 175,124 1973–74 … … … 273,666 1974–75 … … … 414,826 1975–76 … … … 548,486 It is not practicable to identify separately the cost of investigating those complaints against Government Departments where some element of maladministration was found. Statistical information about cases investigated by the Parliamentary Commissioner from 1971 to 1975 is contained in his annual reports to Parliament for those years.