Recommendation 15

The Secretary of State is the sole shareholder in Post Office Limited, whose principal objective is to provide retail post office services through a national network of branches. Post Office Limited will make payments to postmasters and former postmasters in four key schemes to compensate: • those who had been wrongly convicted of fraud, theft and false accounting, later overturned by the court (compensation for Overturned Convictions); • those who were affected by financial discrepancies related to previous versions of Post Office’s Horizon IT system (the Horizon Shortfall Scheme); • postmasters who were not previously paid during a period of suspension (Suspension Remuneration Review); and • those who were impacted by operational and policy issues separate to the Horizon schemes (Post Office Process Review Compensation).