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HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsI thank my right hon. and learned Friend for his question and for his work on this issue, and I appreciate the engagement that he has had with the Lord Chancellor. As my right…08 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsAgain, I thank the hon. Lady for her work on this, both in the House and in her engagement with others who have taken a particular interest in the scandal. I also thank her…08 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsWell, the hon. Gentleman raises an important point about accountability. We have given Sir Wyn Williams the chance to look at all these issues and determine accountability and…08 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsAgain, I thank the right hon. Gentleman for the work he has done on behalf of his constituent and I am so sorry to hear she has passed away. I have a similar situation in my…08 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsAbsolutely. I thank my hon. Friend for all his work on the Select Committee, of which he is a long-standing member. We are very concerned about the people who will not come…08 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsI thank my hon. Friend. He talked about building on my work. Can I say that I am building on his work? He did a tremendous job in his role when this issue first came to light. We…08 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsI thank the right hon. Lady for her work on this issue. On Mrs Skinner, I should say that all people on any of the three schemes get access to an interim payment. If Mrs Skinner’s…08 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsI thank my hon. Friend for his work. Yes, we share the ambition to speed up the whole process. I also thank my hon. Friend for what he has done with the Lord Chancellor, who…08 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsAbsolutely. I think the programme not only captured the type of people we are talking about here, whom people who have met the sub-postmasters are already aware of, but perfectly…08 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsMy right hon. Friend makes a good point, and that definitely played a part in the Post Office’s ability to take forward prosecutions. That is something that my right hon. and…08 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his work as Chair of the Select Committee, and I am very happy to be appearing before it next week to answer more detailed questions on these…08 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsI thank my right hon. Friend for his kind words and for all his work in the campaign for justice for postmasters. I also congratulate him on his recent knighthood; the whole of…08 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsI thank the hon. Lady for her questions and, indeed, for her work on the all-party group on post offices. In terms of the case she raises of the postmasters who have suffered…08 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsI thank my hon. Friend for his questions. I totally agree that people should be held responsible where, following an inquiry and investigation, they are shown to have wilfully…08 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsI thank the hon. Gentleman for his kind words and support, and for the manner in which he delivered his response to the statement. We share an ambition to see exoneration, and I…08 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsThe Post Office scandal is one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation’s history, shaking people’s faith in the principles of equity and fairness that form the core…08 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsThe hon. Lady raises an important point. That is exactly what we are trying to do, and what the statement is all about. As I said, we have compensated 64% of victims thus far with…08 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsI thank the hon. Gentleman for his contribution. I agree that it has taken too long to get to this point. If it was not for people like Alan Bates, some of the journalists who…08 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsI would not feel good about that at all. My right hon. Friend makes an important point. I will take it away and take advice on it. That would not seem to me to be an appropriate…08 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsThe hon. Gentleman has contributed to virtually every debate or statement on this matter, and I thank him for his work on it. We agree with him, and indeed the compensation…08 Jan 2024