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Series
Welsh Office: Registered Files, Parliamentary Commissioner for Administrative Cases...
Catalogue reference: BD 32
What's it about?
BD 32
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...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BD 32
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Title (The name of the record)
- Welsh Office: Registered Files, Parliamentary Commissioner for Administrative Cases (PCA Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1967-1995
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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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.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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PCA file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, 1967-1967
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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90 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1994 National Assembly for Wales
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Farming
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2808/
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