The Coalition Government's legislation transforming the post of Service Complaints Commissioner into a Service Complaints Ombudsman received the Royal Assent on 26 March 2015. The Ombudsman (des), Nicola Williams, took up the post of Service Complaints Commissioner to the Armed Forces in January 2015 but the legislation upgrading the post will take some time to be implemented.
In the meantime, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Craig of Radley, who was an opponent of the legislation during its passage through the Lords, has this week called on the incoming Conservative government to consider cancelling the legislation via the Armed Forces Bill 2016, because it "served to lessen the essential ethos of trust, both political and military, up and down the chain of command—a fundamental requirement of the Armed Forces." I believe there will be mixed views on this.