Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01538 · Session 4

Transparency in SPSO investigations

Closed Submitted 15 Oct 2014 Parliament & Constitution
Signatures
1
Comments
0
Considered
4 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Act (2002) to ensure that complainants are shown all correspondence between SPSO and the bodies complained about before the investigation is concluded (including emails) and that they are also made aware of the content of any verbal communications.

What the petitioner did first

1. Members of Accountability Scotland have vainly tried to see correspondence between SPSO and BUJ (Body under Jurisdiction) and have questioned why its disclosure was denied..
2. We have discussed administrative justice and the SPSO with various MSPs, specifically raising this particular issue with the Local Government and Regeneration Committee. They then asked Jim Martin, when they quizzed him on his Annual Report, why he is reluctant to reveal to complainants the correspondence between investigators and BUJs.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 25 Nov 2014
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petition
    1 mention
  2. 10 Dec 2014
    Local Government and Regeneration Committee
    Public Petition
    1 mention
  3. 7 Jan 2015
    Local Government and Regeneration Committee
    Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Annual Report 2013-14
    2 mentions
  4. 14 Jan 2015
    Local Government and Regeneration Committee
    Public Petition
    1 mention

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