Feb 21, 2024
Sarah Munby: Top civil servant hits out in Post Office compensation row
A top civil servant has denied telling former Post Office chairman Henry Staunton to delay compensation payments to victims of the Horizon scandal. Ms Munby wrote: "It is not true that I made any instruction, either explicitly or implicitly, to Mr Staunton to in any way delay compensation payments. I did not."Neither Mr Staunton's note, nor the contemporaneous note that my office made, suggest otherwise. Former Post Office chairman Henry Staunton earlier released a note he claims proves he was told to stall compensation payments to postmasters. The row between Mr Staunton and the government first erupted at the weekend when the former Post Office chair - who was sacked in January - said in an explosive interview with the Sunday Times that he had been told to slow down compensation payments victims. In January last year, Mr Staunton emailed himself and colleagues, including Post Office chief executive Nick Read, notes of a conversation he had with Sarah Munby, then the most senior official at the Department for Business.
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