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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
for ORAL answer on.. 24 March 1970
The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by
The Lord Beaumont of Whitley To ask Her Majesty's
Government whether they will recommend to
British Colonial Governments that they should appoint Ombudsmen.
DRAFT REPLY
No,
my Lord.
But of course any member of the
public in the Dependent Territories already has the right
to petition the Governor, the Secretary of State and
Her Majesty The Queen about any grievances he may have.
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