questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the time taken for the allocation and investigation of complaints by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman on access to administrative justice.
answerText: The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman is operationally independent of central government, and the Ombudsman is accountable directly to Parliament for the use of their investigatory powers. The Department does not routinely collect performance inf...
heading: Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman: Standards