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Rob Behrens departing Parliamentary Commissioner Today’s report from Robert Behrens, the Parliamentary Ombudsman, is one of the most underwhelming publications ever to come from a public figure asked to redress a major injustice. After toiling over his report for some seven years all he can produce is a mouse of a publication which leaves some 3.5 million women born in the 1950s having to fight…

Sir Alex Allan, board member of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. Pic credit: BBC Email from Sir Alex Allan revealing problem removed from Parliamentary website after I made a press inquiry Parliament and the Health Service will not have a new permanent Ombudsman from April because the Prime Minister has delayed approving a new replacement who anyway cannot start work at the…

Rob Behrens Parliamentary and Health Ombudsman Last week was Whistleblower Awareness Week and Whistleblowers UK and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Whistleblowing organised a two day event in Parliament on issues affecting whistleblowing. I attended the two hour session aptly entitled Whistleblowing in Health care – a Lesson in Futility? It drew a wide selection of people from the UK and…

Rob Behrens, Parliamentary Ombudsman Pic Credit: PHSO website Ombudsman capitulates to DWP intransigence NOT to pay a penny and leaves it to MPs to decide In what must be the most extraordinary provisional decision by any Parliamentary Ombudsman Rob Behrens has decided NOT to make any recommendations for compensation for maladministration he found affecting 3.5 million 50s born women who had to…

Rob Behrens, Parliamentary Commissioner to stand down in March. Promise of an early resolution for the £3.6 million 50s born women to get compensation for their delayed pensions appear to have been dashed with no movement from the Parliamentary Ombudsman to solve the problem. Despite a court agreement in May to revise the final report on compensation for the women to correct what Waspi calls…

Exclusive: Betrayal – Parliamentary Ombudsman dumps on 3.6 million 50s born women

Rob Behrens -Parliamentary Ombudsman Leaked document says nearly all not to get one penny compensation – despite his finding of partial maladministration – and WASPI appears to have covered this up In what must be the biggest betrayal of complainants since the Ombudsman was set up by Harold Wilson in 1967 Rob Behrens has put out proposals to deprive the vast majority of 1950s born women from…