Collaboration Between Ombudsman etc
A proposal to amend the Parliamentary Commissioners Act 1967, the Local Government Act 1974 and the Health Service Commissioner Act 1993. It will:
- Enable the Parliamentary Ombudsman, the Local Government Ombudsman, and the Health Service Ombudsman to work together collaboratively.
- Enable the three Ombudsmen to share information with each other in appropriate cases outside of the course of their own investigation.
- Enable the Ombudsmen to appoint and pay a mediator or other appropriate person to assist them in relation to any complaint they are investigating.
- Enable the Local Government Ombudsman to investigate a complaint that has not previously been notified to the authority concerned in the small number of cases where the Local Government Ombudsman is convinced that no benefit would be achieved in requiring that the case first be considered by the relevant authority.
Initial Scrutiny period began 18 December 2006.
Final Stage scrutiny (Order laid 9 May 2007)
Collaboration between Ombudsman etc
