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April - September 1999
Parliamentary Commissioner Act
Report for Session 1999-2000
Selected Cases - April-September 1999
Section 10(4) of the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 empowers me to lay before each House of Parliament such reports with respect to my function as I think fit.
I now lay before Parliament the following summaries and edited texts of 14 selected case reports out of 148 investigations completed between 1 April 1999 and 30 September 1999. This is in accordance with my past practice. The case reports include some issued under authority delegated by me. The pronoun 'I' in the relevant summaries and texts refers to the member of staff concerned and not to me. Two cases concerning the Welsh Office have not been included because they concern matters which have become the responsibility of the Welsh Assembly. It is to that body that I report in my role as Welsh Administration Ombudsman.
It will be seen that two cases, numbers C. 202/98 and C. 557/98, have not been anonymised. I stress that the publication of the complainants' names is in accordance with their preferences and with their full and informed consent, freely given. In such circumstances, but only in such circumstances, and provided that the interests of third parties will not be jeopardised, it seems to me that there is little to be gained and much to be lost by my not abiding by the complainant's own preference. If a third party's legitimate interests might be affected (as they could be, for example, in cases concerning disputes relating to child maintenance), different considerations apply.
I am also including in this report brief anonymised summaries of the other reports of investigations completed by my Office between 1 April and 30 September 1999.
M S BUCKLEY
Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration (Ombudsman)
December 1999
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