Statement
My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (Mr Leo Docherty) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement:
I am pleased to place in the Library of the House today the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) formal response to the Service Complaints Ombudsman for the Armed Force’s annual report for 2021 on the fairness, effectiveness and efficiency of the Service Complaints System.
The Ombudsman’s report assessed the Service Complaints System and the work of her office in 2021. The response sets out MOD’s comments and approach to each of the Ombudsman’s recommendations that she has made and includes a summary of our position on recommendations that remain open from previous annual reports.
The MOD values the strong independent oversight that the Ombudsman brings to the Service Complaints System, and remains committed to having a system in which our personnel can have confidence.