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HANSARD Future of the Post OfficeAs I hope I made clear in my opening statement, and as the Green Paper certainly makes clear, our preference remains keeping the current size of the network and maintaining the…14 Jul 2025HANSARD Future of the Post OfficeThe hon. Gentleman is right that we need to make the task of running a post office more attractive. That is why improving both the culture, so that postmasters feel listened to,…14 Jul 2025HANSARD Future of the Post OfficeIn principle, I am very happy to meet the hon. Gentleman to discuss the issues with post offices in his constituency. He gives me the opportunity to put on the record my…14 Jul 2025HANSARD Future of the Post OfficeI am grateful to the hon. Lady for her welcome for the Green Paper. She rightly underlines the significance of the Post Office, particularly to the digitally excluded, to the…14 Jul 2025HANSARD Post Office Horizon Inquiry: Volume 1I recognise and understand why there is considerable scepticism across the House about the Post Office continuing to have any role in the delivery of any part of the compensation…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Post Office Horizon Inquiry: Volume 1On the right hon. Gentleman’s direct challenge, I certainly want to do that. I completely share his view that every victim who still has not had compensation has waited too long,…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Post Office Horizon Inquiry: Volume 1I want to take this opportunity again to pay tribute to the work of the Business and Trade Committee under my right hon. Friend’s chairmanship. As he has said, there has been a…08 Jul 2025HANSARDPost Office Horizon Inquiry Report: Volume 1Today I welcome the publication of volume 1 of Sir Wyn Williams’ Post Office Horizon IT inquiry report. This volume will illustrate the human impact of the scandal on victims and…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Post Office Horizon Inquiry: Volume 1I thank the hon. Gentleman for his work on the Business and Trade Committee, too. He gives me the opportunity to pay tribute to the noble Lord Beamish, who campaigned for a…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Post Office Horizon Inquiry: Volume 1I thank the hon. Lady for her comments and questions. She was right to say in her opening remarks about this being the greatest miscarriage of justice in our country’s history.…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Post Office Horizon Inquiry: Volume 1The hon. Lady makes an important and significant point and gives me the opportunity to comment on that particular constituency case, which she and I have discussed a couple of…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Post Office Horizon Inquiry: Volume 1I welcome my hon. Friend’s work on the Business and Trade Committee and more generally in pushing the Government to do more on full and fair compensation. On the question of…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Post Office Horizon Inquiry: Volume 1Sir Wyn Williams has today released the first volume of his report into the Horizon scandal, which caused so much harm to so many innocent people. The fearless and diligent work…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Post Office Horizon Inquiry: Volume 1There is no question but that the compensation process has taken far too long. The scandal could have been stopped a lot earlier. Everybody who was a victim of the scandal should…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Post Office Horizon Inquiry: Volume 1My hon. Friend raises a significant issue, and one that I have no doubt had a bearing on the way in which the scandal unfolded. She will understand that for a formal view on who…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Post Office Horizon Inquiry: Volume 1My hon. Friend has been one of those who campaigned consistently over a long period of time for justice for sub-postmasters, in particular for her constituent Chris Head. I hope…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Post Office Horizon Inquiry: Volume 1I welcome the hon. Lady’s comments, and I welcome the challenge to the Government to go further and faster on delivering compensation, not just from her and her party, but from…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Post Office Horizon Inquiry: Volume 1I take this opportunity to commend my hon. Friend for his consistent campaigning on this issue. He is absolutely right to underline the moral responsibility that Fujitsu has to…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Post Office Horizon Inquiry: Volume 1To be clear, Sir Wyn Williams’ recommendation of a standing body to deliver compensation is very much to ensure that if there is ever a future disaster on this scale—and we all…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Post Office Horizon Inquiry: Volume 1I have absolutely no doubt that we need to see, in full, who was responsible for this disaster and why. Sir Wyn Williams’s work on that is critical. We await his final report,…08 Jul 2025