158 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 24 April on 25 May 2014, including the question about the Ombudsman looks at the rights of private school pupils government’s use of the civil service. The decision is stated in a reply which the Ombudsman has sent to the complainant. Do pupils at private schools have a right to be consulted before the school makes the decision 8 May to suspend and expel them? The Ombudsman has this question. Ombudsman stops investigation of conditions at the Regional Hospital Holstebro 29 April The Parliamentary Ombudsman is satisfied with Municipalities must have good reasons for banning citizens from turning up in person at the municipality offices the information he received from the Central now asked the Ministry of Education to consider Denmark Region on the conditions of patients with psychiatric disorders at the Regional Hospital Holstebro. Consequently, the Ombudsman does not take further action in the matter. If a municipality wants to ban a citizen from turning up in person at the municipal administration offices, 13 May it requires strong reasons for doing so, says the Severe criticism of censorship against programme presenter at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) Ombudsman in a statement on a case where a municipality had issued such a ban to a citizen several times with reference to, among other things, the safety of the municipal staff. In some cases, DR has the right to reallocate for instance programme presenters if they express 2 May strong personal opinions in public and, by doing so, Ombudsman closes case on freedom of speech for the Security and Intelligence Service staff harm the impartiality of DR. However, in a case It was not an attempt to curtail the staff’s freedom Danish Constitutional Act. These are the central of speech when the new head of the Security and key points in a statement from the Ombudsman in Intelligence Service (PET) in a TV interview indi- the case. related to programme presenter Adam Holm, DR got it completely wrong. Among other things, DR applied a censorship measure in breach of the cated that it was unacceptable if PET employees went to the press and related matters which are 20 May normally to be resolved internally in the Service. Large parts of ministerial advice and assistance documents covered by the right to access to public files 6 May Ombudsman rejects complaint about information campaign for referendum on Unified Patent Court The tax authorities went too far when they exempted a note from the Customs and Tax Administration (SKAT) from access to public files pursuant The Ombudsman has decided not to initiate an in- to the ministerial advice and assistance regulation, vestigation of the information campaign organised according to one of the first Ombudsman investi- by the Ministry of Business and Growth leading up gations of the controversial provisions laid down in to the referendum on the EU Unified Patent Court the new Access to Public Administration Files Act.