§ Mr. Michael Marshallasked the Secretary of State for the Environment on how many occasions his Department was the subject of investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner during the last 12 months for which figures are available; on how many occasions a completed investigation showed maladministration; and on how many occasions his Department has still to rectify a complaint which the Parliamentary Commissioner had accepted in his report as having some basis of maladministration.
§ Mr. ShoreFrom 1st January to 31st December 1976 the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration issued reports of his investigation into 47 complaints against my Department. He found elements of maladministration in 12. Within this group, wherever rectification was possible it has been made. I have omitted from these figures seven complaints on subjects which on 10th September last became the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport.