Select committee: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee
Recommendation 3
Third Report - Post Office and Horizon redress: Instruction to deliver
Published 7 Mar 2024
Paragraph 14
Addressed to Department for Business and Trade
Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee Post Office and Horizon - Compensation: follow-up All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Recommendation (the committee's words)
To correct the abject failure to deliver timely redress for sub-postmasters, the Government must include in its forthcoming legislation legal timeframes to deliver redress to sub-postmasters. Those targets should include binding timeframes for each stage of a compensation claim, with financial penalties awarded to the claimant for failure to meet those deadlines. To accelerate the submission of claims, the Government must review and radically simplify the evidential requirements of the claims process, especially in relation to medical impact, consequential loss and repetitional damage.
From: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee, Third Report - Post Office and Horizon redress: Instruction to deliver (HC 477), paragraph 14, 7 March 2024
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 9 May 2024 (deadline 7 May 2024).