Select committee: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee
Recommendation 4
Third Report - Post Office and Horizon redress: Instruction to deliver
Published 7 Mar 2024
Paragraph 16
Addressed to Department for Business and Trade
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
To ensure that offers of redress are fast and fair, the Government must: (Paragraph 16) a) Require full disclosures by the Post Office of the information needed to submit full and fair claims within legally binding timeframes; b) publish a standardised tariff of damages to help sub-postmasters claim the full amount to which they are entitled; c) remove the cap on legal expenses for sub-postmasters to contest their claims; d) allow those who have already settled under the Horizon Shortfall Scheme to revisit their claims to ensure that they have received fair redress; and e) introduce a legally binding independent appeals mechanism.
From: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee, Third Report - Post Office and Horizon redress: Instruction to deliver (HC 477), paragraph 16, 7 March 2024
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 9 May 2024 (deadline 7 May 2024).