United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 2962
Horizon IT System: Convictions
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18 May 2021
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26 May 2021 · Answer
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26 May 2021
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to help ensure that sub-postmasters wrongly convicted as a result of faults in the Horizon IT system receive (a) justice and (b) compensation.
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18 May 2021
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to help ensure that sub-postmasters wrongly convicted as a result of faults in the Horizon IT system receive (a) justice and (b) compensation.
Source: Commons
26 May 2021
Answer
The Government understands the serious impact that issues arising from faults with the Horizon IT system, and the Post Office’s management of these issues, have had on affected postmasters’ lives and livelihoods. This is why it is vital that postmasters a...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-05-18/2962
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1315656
- uk · wq-1315656 · source updated 26 May 2021