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The Ombudsman did not have sufficient grounds for rejecting the assessment
by the Ministry of Justice that the Member of Parliament could not be given
access to the document (in the form of a copy), but it was the Ombudsman’s
opinion that the decision to refuse access was worded in an unfortunate and
unclear manner. In addition, the Ministry of Justice should have considered
whether the Member of Parliament could have been given the opportunity to
read through the memorandum again.
After receiving the Ombudsman’s statement, the Ministry of Justice made the
contents of the memorandum public with the exception of a few details.
F. MINISTRY OF CLIMATE, ENERGY AND BUILDING
No cases concluded in 2012 were selected for publication in the Annual Report.
G. MINISTRY OF CULTURE
The following cases concluded in 2012 were selected for publication in the Annual
Report:
2012-18. No grounds given for refusal of work grant
The Literature Committee of the Danish Agency for Culture refused a work
grant application from a writer of children’s books. It its letter of refusal, the
Literature Committee stated that it had assessed the application on the basis of
the scheme’s support criteria and had prioritised within the means available to
the Committee.
The writer did not find that an adequate reason had been given for the refusal
and complained to the Ombudsman. During the Ombudsman’s processing of
the case, the Literature Committee explained in more detail the criteria used in
its assessment of applications. The Committee stated that it made its decision
on the basis of the literary quality of a submitted text sample, and it elaborated
on the elements which decided whether or not a text was considered to have the
required literary quality.
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