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HANSARD Post Office Management CultureThe hon. Gentleman is rightly making a typically impassioned speech. I have been very careful throughout the whole time I have been involved in this matter, which is over four…08 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Management CultureThere is no doubt that the ITV series has rightly heightened awareness both in this House and further afield, and I welcome that, but much work was going on in this space before…08 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Management Cultureindicated assent .08 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Management CultureI thank my right hon. Friend for his intervention and his work on this matter. It is interesting that more people are coming forward, through colleagues, to the compensation…08 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Management CultureThe hon. Lady remarked earlier about the number of people coming forward following the ITV series, and I am keen for people to do that. It is important to say to all postmasters…08 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Management CultureMay I first pay tribute to the hon. Member for Motherwell and Wishaw (Marion Fellows) for securing this debate and her fine work as always on the all-party parliamentary group on…08 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Services: Isolated CommunitiesThe hon. Gentleman raises an important point. Banking hubs are not a one-size-fits-all solution. There are other solutions, some of which are facilitated by the banking framework.…08 Feb 2024HANSARD Post Office Services: Isolated CommunitiesI congratulate the hon. Member for Stretford and Urmston (Andrew Western) on securing this important debate on a subject close to my heart, as the representative of the rural seat…08 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office LtdThe bonuses were returned voluntarily by anybody who received them for that sub-metric, and the chief executive returned his bonuses from across the entire inquiry. On the point…29 Jan 2024HANSARDPost Office LtdThat is absolutely right. It should not be the case that a postmaster has to evidence a document that does not exist. The benefit of the doubt should be with the postmaster. Of…29 Jan 2024HANSARDPost Office LtdI agree with the hon. Lady. We need sustainable post offices, and that is about revenue. There have been changes in consumer habits and business levels, which have caused…29 Jan 2024HANSARDPost Office LtdI thank the hon. Member, and I thank Della Robinson for her work. She was one of the trailblazers who were so important in getting to where we are today and to our getting…29 Jan 2024HANSARDPost Office LtdThat is certainly of concern to the Government as well. The inquiry is there to ascertain exactly who did what, or who did not do anything when they could have done something. The…29 Jan 2024HANSARDPost Office LtdYes, it was a pleasure to meet the hon. Member, and I am happy to meet him again to try to expedite matters if he is experiencing delays. Of course, checks and balances need to be…29 Jan 2024HANSARDPost Office LtdTo be clear, those schemes are run independently of the Post Office. There are independent processes all the way through, and an independent panel assesses the loss. I think my…29 Jan 2024HANSARDPost Office LtdI thank my hon. Friend for his work on the Select Committee. I was present for his line of questioning during that session. The chief executive committed to providing responses to…29 Jan 2024HANSARDPost Office LtdI thank the hon. Lady for her work; the all-party parliamentary group on post offices does a tremendous job. The phrase used in the statement was “mutual consent”, but it is fair…29 Jan 2024HANSARDPost Office LtdI thank my right hon. Friend for her question and the work that she has done on this. We set up the inquiry in 2021 to undertake that work. Those documents are public and subject…29 Jan 2024HANSARDPost Office LtdFollowing a conversation with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade over the weekend, Henry Staunton agreed to step down as chairman of the Post Office. An interim chair…29 Jan 2024HANSARDPost Office LtdIt certainly was not something that we wanted to do on a weekend. There was a chance that it would come into the public domain by other means, which is why a conversation had to…29 Jan 2024