Ombudsman (Civil Service Guidance)

HC Deb 05 December 1995 vol 268 cc167-8W

Mr. Pawsey

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster when he proposes to publish the Office of Public Service guidance for civil servants on the work of the ombudsman as recommended in the first report from the Select Committee on the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration of Session 1993–94, HC33. [4112]

Mr. Freeman

The guidance will take the form of a booklet, "The Ombudsman in Your Files". It will be circulated to Departments from 7 December 1995 and I will arrange for copies to be placed in the Libraries of the House at the earliest opportunity.