To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs pursuant to her answer of 20 June 2006, Official Report, column 1762W, on the Parliamentary Ombudsman, to which recommendations her Department has declined to give full effect. (97378)

The two occasions where the Department has declined to give full effect to recommendations relate to the following two cases A7/03 and A16/03 made under the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information.

Information on these cases A7/03 and A16/03 is set out in the Ombudsman’s report “Access to Official Information: Investigations Completed: November 2002—June 2003 (HC 951 July 2003)”, and can also be accessed through the Ombudsman’s website at http://www.ombudsman.org.uk/improving_services/selected_cases/AOI/aoi0306/index.html

Copies of both of the above reports are available in the Library.