Catalogue description Welsh Office: Registered Files, Parliamentary Commissioner for Administrative Cases (PCA Series)

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Reference: BD 32
Title: Welsh Office: Registered Files, Parliamentary Commissioner for Administrative Cases (PCA Series)
Description:

The files in this series contain papers relating to cases referred to the Welsh Office by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration (The Ombudsman). They cover a wide variety of complaints, most of them relating to property, agriculture and highway matters though a few are concerned with the use of the Welsh language.

Files contain a statement of the complaint, details of the department's investigation and a record of the commissioner's decision.
Date: 1967-1995
Arrangement:

The files have the reference PCA and are serially numbered within the year in which the commissioner referred the case to the Welsh Office.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: PCA file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, 1967-
Physical description: 90 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1994 National Assembly for Wales
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The post of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration was created by the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967. The commissioner's function is to investigate complaints referred to him via Members of the House of Commons from the members of the public who claim to have suffered injustice as a consequence of maladministration in actions taken by or on behalf of government departments.

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