their own conventions for ensuring that the constituency Member is kept in touch when another Member takes up a case. Most complaints will come from private individuals, but companies or other corporate bodies-other than those under publicly elected or appointed authority-will not be excluded. The Commissioner will be authorised to consider any complaint sent to him by a Member of Parliament from anyone lawfully resident in Great Britain or, so far as matters controlled by the Government in Westminster are concerned, in Northern Ireland. Visitors from abroad will be included if the complaint relates to something which happened while they were lawfully present here. So will persons living abroad if their complaint is about the administration of individuals' rights or obligations arising here. But we do not intend that the Commissioner should cover complaints about our High Commissions, Embassies, Consular Offices or other posts of Her Majesty's Government abroad.
Central Government administration to be covered
7. Except for some exclusions which are explained later in this Paper, the field for the Commissioner will be the whole range of relationships between the private person and the central Government. We propose to list in the statute the bodies to be subject to investigation by the Commissioner in matters within his scope. The proposed list is as follows:-
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Ministry of Aviation
Office of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Civil Service Commission
Colonial Office
Commonwealth Relations Office
Customs and Excise
Ministry of Defence
Department of Economic Affairs
Department of Education and Science
Export Credits Guarantee Department
Foreign Office
General Register Office
General Registry Office, Scotland
Ministry of Health
Home Office
Ministry of Housing and Local Government
Central Office of Information
Inland Revenue
Ministry of Labour
Ministry of Land and Natural Resources
Land Registry
Lord Chancellor's Department
Office of the Lord Privy Seal
National Assistance Board
National Debt Office
Ordnance Survey
Ministry of Overseas Development
Paymaster General's Office
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