§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what additional resources will be made available to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration to carry out the new tasks conferred upon the Office of Parliamentary Ombudsman, as set out at paragraph 1.12 of the White Paper on open government (Cm 2290); and what criteria he has used to judge the likely resource demands upon the parliamentary ombudsman arising from the White Paper.
§ Mr. WaldegraveThe resources available to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration are determined through the public expenditure survey in the usual way. The commissioner puts proposals directly to the Treasury.