Catalogue description Ministry of Housing and Local Government and Department of the Environment: Establishment Division and successors: Registered Files (PCA Series)

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Reference: HLG 149
Title: Ministry of Housing and Local Government and Department of the Environment: Establishment Division and successors: Registered Files (PCA Series)
Description:

This series contains files of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government relating to the department's response to complaints under investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration.

The records in this series were first raised in 1967 by the Establishment Division of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government to implement the provisions of the Parliamentary Commissioner Act of 1967.
Date: 1967-1972
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: PCA file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, 1970-1997

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1951-1970
Physical description: 22 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Selection and destruction information: Only a small selection of files have so far been taken. These are illustrative of the Department's involvement with the PCA and cover the early years of the jurisdiction of the PCA.
Administrative / biographical background:

The function of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration (or Ombudsman) is to investigate complaints referred to him by Members of the House of Commons. Such complaints are usually made by members of the public who claim to have suffered injustice in consequence of maladministrations on behalf of Government Departments. Normally the PCA will investigate cases only where the aggrieved party has redress to neither a tribunal nor a court of law.

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