Select committee: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee
Recommendation 2
Third Report - Post Office and Horizon redress: Instruction to deliver
Published 7 Mar 2024
Paragraph 8
Addressed to Department for Business and Trade
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
The Government must immediately remove the Post Office from any involvement in delivering redress for sub-postmasters and the Government should set out to the Committee how it proposes to deliver swift and effective redress for sub-postmasters, and in what legally binding timeframes. We repeat the Committee’s recommendation that the Government set up a properly resourced independent intermediary to assist sub-postmasters seeking to overturn convictions and seek compensation across all redress schemes. This intermediary should provide claimants with access to forensic accountants and legal experts who can offer advice to help ensure that claims are robust as possible, that offers take account of all the losses suffered and that claimants do not suffer significant detriment because records have not been kept by the Post Office or other relevant organisations.
From: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee, Third Report - Post Office and Horizon redress: Instruction to deliver (HC 477), paragraph 8, 7 March 2024
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 9 May 2024 (deadline 7 May 2024).