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date	14/12/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Service: Ombudsman
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the draft Public Service Ombudsman Bill, Cm 9374, published on 5 December, does not make provision for findings of maladministration and recommendations to be made binding on government departments and other public bodies.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL4129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>The draft Bill requires the Ombudsman to send a statement setting out her findings and any recommendations to the department or public body in question. As now, it will be for the department or public body to decide whether and how to give effect to any such recommendations. The legislation retains existing powers that allow the Ombudsman to draw attention to unremedied hardship or injustice where she considers it has not been or will not be put right.</p><p>This is a significant power that includes the ability to require information about how a designated authority will respond to the Ombudsman's findings and to bring that information to the attention of others – for example, by laying the report before Parliament or sending it to members of a local authority.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 21/12/2016 13:17:07 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

658712

registered interest
date	14/12/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Service: Ombudsman
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to provide for a member of the House of Lords, as well as members of the House of Commons, to be entitled under the draft Public Service Ombudsman Bill to make a complaint to the Ombudsman if authorised by the affected person to act on the affected person's behalf.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL4130
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>Clause 5 of the draft Public Service Ombudsman Bill entitles any person who is authorised by the affected person to make a complaint to the Ombudsman on their behalf, including a member of the House of Lords.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 21/12/2016 13:18:24 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

657786

registered interest
date	13/12/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Statistics
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which UK regulators are, as part of their statutory remit, required to follow the UK Statistics Authority Code of Practice for Official Statistics.
tabling member printed	Baroness Wolf of Dulwich
uin	HL4105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen grouped question UIN HL4103 HL4104 question first answered 20/12/2016 16:45:27 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen attachment 1 file name Reply to Baroness Wolf (HL4103-HL4105) AD3 (1) (1) (1).pdf title UKSA response to HL4103, HL4104,HL4105
tabling member	4347 label Biography information for Baroness Wolf of Dulwich