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HANSARDPost Office Horizon System: Compensation for Sub-postmastersOver £153 million has been paid to 2,700 victims. We encourage anyone impacted to use the three compensation schemes available. We have already published the details of the…25 Jan 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon System: Exoneration of Sub-postmastersI thank my right hon. Friend for all the work he has done in this area. I understand that the requirement to sign the Official Secrets Act relates to the confidentiality of mail;…25 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank the hon. Gentleman for that question. It is clearly up to businesses to decide if they want to trial a four-day week. We have made no assessment of any results. It is our…25 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsYes, I would be very happy to meet. There are three compensation schemes and it depends on which one she falls into. If it is the group litigation order, an immediate award of…25 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend has done a fantastic job with the campaign, and has made huge progress towards ensuring that best practice is followed by suppliers. Of course I shall be happy to…25 Jan 2024HANSARDCo-operatives and Social EnterprisesThis week, I spoke to a conference attended by building societies about how we can increase presence on the high street to help with access to cash and finance facilities. The…25 Jan 2024HANSARDCo-operatives and Social EnterprisesPersonally, I am a big fan of co-operative movements and the regional mutual bank system in Germany, which I have spoken about many times in this place. Of course, the Government…25 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank the hon. Gentleman for his work on this matter, which he and I have discussed on many occasions. The limits are there to try to prevent money laundering, but it is…25 Jan 2024HANSARDSMEs: Late PaymentThe Government are committed to tackling late payments. That is why we launched the prompt payment and cash flow review, which was published alongside the autumn statement. The…25 Jan 2024HANSARDSMEs: Late PaymentThe hon. Lady is right to raise this issue, and earlier I set out specific actions such as giving the Small Business Commissioner more powers, and producing league tables. We work…25 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend raises an very interesting point. We have looked at this particular situation with interest and will continue to monitor it. Clearly, Asda is a private company and…25 Jan 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon System: Compensation for Sub-postmastersI apologise on behalf of the Government to Kym Ledgar for what she has been through. It is absolutely our intention that everybody gets full and fair compensation, and that is not…25 Jan 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon System: Compensation for Sub-postmastersI thank my hon. Friend for all her work. At one point we were co-chairs of the all-party group for whistleblowing, and she does a tremendous job in raising this issue time and…25 Jan 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon System: Compensation for Sub-postmastersThe hon. Lady is absolutely right to raise that point. Yes, the compensation scheme is there to compensate and provide redress for financial loss, but also, quite rightly, for…25 Jan 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon System: Exoneration of Sub-postmastersI thank the hon. Gentleman for the constructive way he has engaged with us on this issue. I know that the Justice Secretary spoke to the Leader of the Opposition this week on this…25 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThat would make perfect sense. We read the Ofcom report into the review of universal service obligations with interest. Our clear position is that we will retain a six-day service…25 Jan 2024HANSARDSMEs: Operating CostsThe hon. Lady raises important points. Of course, the Chancellor can do nothing if the Scottish Government do not pass on our support to Scotland, which they have not done for…25 Jan 2024HANSARDSMEs: Operating CostsThat is an interesting point that the hon. Gentleman makes from a sedentary position. The actual numbers of closures—although of course we are concerned about increases—are below…25 Jan 2024HANSARDSMEs: Operating CostsOn this side of the House, we are for business because we are from business, and we understand the needs of businesses.25 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Gentleman is right to raise this issue. The service has not been satisfactory, and Royal Mail has been fined £5.6 million by Ofcom as a result. It has employed 3,000 more…25 Jan 2024