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Lord Beamish (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 11 February 2025

Debate

Post Office Horizon Scandal: Compensation Payments

Contribution

My Lords, I declare an interest as a member of the Government’s Horizon Compensation Advisory Board. The Government put in £1.8 billion to compensate victims—money that was not put in by the previous Government—to compensate victims of the Horizon scandal. Picking up on the question from the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Stirrup, on Fujitsu’s responsibility, I have been campaigning on this for many years, and we all knew nearly 15 years ago that company’s role in it. The inquiry clearly highlighted that as well. The Minister said that it had accepted that it had a moral obligation to pay compensation, but what discussions have the Government had with Fujitsu to start paying money forward? She says that it is not bidding for new contracts, but it is making multi-billion-pound profits from extensions of contracts, so may I urge the Minister to get it to the table as quickly as possible?

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