Apr 8, 2024
Post Office redress not fast enough, says minister
BBC. The Post Office minister has admitted sub-postmasters and postmistresses wrongly prosecuted for theft and false accounting are not being compensated quickly enough. "We do need to compensate people, that's the first thing we need to do and we haven't been compensating people quickly enough. We need to accelerate that," Mr Hollinrake said on the programme, which was broadcast from Fenny Compton, the Warwickshire village where campaigner Alan Bates convened the first gathering of sub-postmasters in 2009.Hundreds of sub-postmasters were prosecuted by the Post Office - which is owned by the government - based on a faulty accounting software system called Horizon. The government has provided funding to the Post Office for these payments, but MPs have warned that the Post Office is "Not fit" to run any compensation scheme, that it is removed from involvement, and replaced by a new independent body. Post Office Ltd. WATCH. 'I stopped going out' - Post Office scandal victim 3 hrs ago UK. 'I'm terrified' - Post Office victim still fears seeing old customers. A draft report seen by the BBC confirms the Post Office knew of IT vulnerabilities before Bates v Post Office case.
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