Select committee: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee
Recommendation 17
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 publish a regular transparency report detailing external legal costs incurred under all schemes. It is important that the report is produced in a manner that minimises the potential for wider confusion about the basis under which legal costs are billed, distinguishing the cost of disbursements incurred by firms where possible. Where separation of cost categories is not possible, the Department should provide a clear and accessible summary of the meaning and limitations of the data provided. (Recommendation, Paragraph 66) 28
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).