Written question asked by Lord Bancroft (Crossbench), in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 3 April 1996. It was answered by Earl Howe (Conservative) on Wednesday, 3 April 1996.

---

Howe, Earl

Question

With reference to Parliamentary Ombudsmans Annual Report for 1995, which records a further big increase in total number of cases referred to him, what further steps they are taking to bring to depts notice existence of Code of Practice on Access to Govt Information in relation to which (by contrast) very few complaints were referred.

---

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

571 c47-8WA

Session

1995-96

Subjects

Disclosure of information Codes of practice Central government Freedom of information Government departments Publications Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration