24 July 2002
The Prime Minister is pleased to announce that Ms Ann Abraham is to succeed Sir Michael Buckley as Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration and Health Service Commissioner for England. Her Majesty The Queen has approved the appointment.
Sir Michael Buckley has been Parliamentary Commissioner and Health Service Commissioner since January 1997. On his retirement later this year, Ann Abraham will take up office.
Ann Abraham will cease to be a member of the Committee on Standards on Public Life when she takes up appointment, as the Committee is one of the public bodies whose administrative actions the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration can investigate.
Notes to Editors
Ann Abraham has been the Legal Services Ombudsman for England and Wales since September 1997. She was Chief Executive of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux from 1991 to 1997. She held various senior positions in the Housing Corporation from 1980 to 1990 and prior to that worked in local government. She was a Non-Executive Director of the Benefits Agency from November 1997 to June 2001, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the British and Irish Ombudsman Association. She has been a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life since January 2000.
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