Select committee: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee
Recommendation 13
1st Report - Post Office and Horizon scandal redress: Unfinished business
Published 1 Jan 2025
Addressed to Department for Business and Trade
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
The Department should ensure that offers to claimants are delivered at or above the top-end of the illustrative redress bands and guidance established under the guidance and principles of the Group Litigation Order scheme. Further requests for information should only be made in order to increase the offer value to claimants, or in the rare instance where there may be reasonable concern about a claim’s basis of calculation. A claim’s named case facilitator should have a defined role in swiftly considering whether a request for information is reasonable for the above purposes. (Recommendation, Paragraph 52) 26 Horizon Convictions Redress Scheme
From: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee, 1st Report - Post Office and Horizon scandal redress: Unfinished business (HC 341), 1 January 2025
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 25 March 2025 (deadline 1 March 2025).