Summary: Mr X complains about the Council’s funding of a private tourism enterprise. The Ombudsman cannot investigate as Mr X’s complaint affects all or most of the people in the Council’s area and so is outside the Ombudsman’s legal remit.

The complaint

1. The complainant, whom I shall call Mr X, complains the Council has funded a private tourism enterprise using public money.

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The Ombudsman’s role and powers

2. We cannot investigate something that affects all or most of the people in a council’s area. (Local Government Act 1974, section 26(7), as amended)

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How I considered this complaint

3. I have considered what Mr X said in his complaint.

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What I found

4. Mr X complains the Council has funded a private tourism enterprise using public money.

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Final decision

5. The Ombudsman cannot investigate Mr X’s complaint as Council spending affects all or most of the people in the Council’s area and so is outside the Ombudsman’s legal remit.

Investigator’s final decision on behalf of the Ombudsman

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Investigator's decision on behalf of the Ombudsman