Question follow-through · 39811

Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman: Parish and Town Councils

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to allow (a) town, (b) community and (c) parish councils to be eligible complainants to ombudsman services.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
19 Mar 2025
Target answer date
24 Mar 2025
Answer
31 Mar 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to allow (a) town, (b) community and (c) parish councils to be eligible complainants to ombudsman services.

  2. 24 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 31 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The Government has no current plans to change the provisions relating to whom may make a complaint to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman or other statutory Ombudsman schemes.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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