§ 39. Mr. Foulkesasked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will consider making changes to allow civil servants to raise complaints of maladministration with the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration.
§ Mr. HayhoeNo. Civil servants are excluded from the jurisdiction of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration only on personal matters. The Government share the view of successive Administrations that the commissioner was not established to investigate relations between the state as employer and its employees. The means of redress available to civil servants is in no way inferior to those available to workers generally, and it is not considered appropriate for this group to have the right, not available to others, to invoke the parliamentary commissioner's intervention in personal grievances.