Local Government

Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 23 October 2006.

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Photo of Norman Baker Norman Baker Liberal Democrat, Lewes

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on how many occasions the local government ombudsman concluded that local councils were found to have been guilty of (a) maladministration and (b) administrative fault in the most recent year for which figures are available; and what (i) definition and (ii) processes apply to each type of finding.

Photo of Phil Woolas Phil Woolas Minister of State (Local Government & Community Cohesion), Department for Communities and Local Government

The information requested on the number of findings of maladministration by the ombudsman in 2005-06 and on the meaning and process which applies to such a finding, is available in the Ombudsman's Annual Report 2005-06 at www.lgo.org.uk/annual.htm. Copies of the annual report will be placed in the Library of the House.

The Local Government Act 1974, under the terms of which the ombudsman operates, does not make provision for the ombudsman to make a specific finding of "administrative fault".

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nick chance
Posted on 24 Oct 2006 5:07 pm (Report this annotation)

More's the pity then. What should have been asked was how many had been fired for maladministration and administrative fault. As if we didn't already know the answer.