House of Commons - Service Complaints Commissioner for the Armed Forces: the first year - Defence Committee

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Defence Committee - Eighth Report
Service Complaints Commissioner for the Armed Forces: the first year

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 23 June 2009.

Contents

Terms of Reference

1 Introduction
2 Background

Duty of Care Report
Armed Forces Bill
The Deepcut Review

3 The Service Complaints System

The Complaints Procedure
Level 1: The Commanding Officer
Level 2: The Superior Officer
Level 3: The Defence Council
Service Complaints Panels

4 The Service Complaints Commissioner

The Service Complaints Commissioner's Role
The Commissioner's Objectives
Delivering objectives
The Commissioner's Powers
Non-combat deaths
Joint Personnel Administration (JPA)
Resources available to the Commissioner
The status of the Commissioner's annual report

Conclusions and recommendations
Formal minutes
Witnesses
List of written evidence
List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral Evidence
18 March 2009

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Prepared 1 July 2009