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Ombudsman for traffic monopolies?
AN OMBUDSMAN was needed to pursue obvious questions of maladministration in the nationalised industries, said a Conservative MP.
The problems faced by the Alder Valley bus company when it wanted parts for its vehicles was one of the examples quoted by Tony Durant (Tory, Reading North) when he introduced into the Commons a Bill to appoint an Ombudsman for the nationalised industries.
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The company — the local one in Reading — could not get parts for its vehicles, he told MPs.
After quoting other examples of matters which, had gone wrong with nationalised industries. Mr Durant said his conclusion was that they had a monopoly, used vast amounts of taxpayers' money and did not seem to take as much account of the consumer as private industry did.
The Bill was given a formal First Reading — but has no chance of becoming law.