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HANSARDPost Office: Horizon CompensationTo ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the £685m set aside for the Post Office Historical Matters Compensation scheme will cover those claimants involved in the litigation who…24 Jan 2022HANSARDPost Office: Horizon CompensationMy Lords, what matters will be covered by the compensation announced last month for those sub-postmasters who have had their convictions overturned? It will include financial…10 Jan 2022HANSARDPostmasters with Overturned Convictions: Settlement FundsMy Lords, I acknowledge that this is very good news and I am grateful to my noble friend for the work that he is doing and has done behind the scenes on it. Can I press him on the…15 Dec 2021HANSARDPost Office UpdateMy Lords, last week the Minister, Paul Scully, said: “We want to ensure justice and fair compensation for all who have been affected”.—[ Official Report , Commons, 19/5/21; col.…24 May 2021HANSARDPost Office Court of Appeal JudgmentMy Lords, the Post Office and the Government have expressly excluded the 555 group litigants from the compensation scheme. Nick Read, the chief executive of the Post Office, has…28 Apr 2021HANSARDDefence and Security Industrial StrategyMy Lords, I draw attention to my interests as set out in the register. This was a good review, which concentrated on many key points, including resilience. But is there not a risk…24 Mar 2021HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillMy Lords, following the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Stirrup, is a daunting task, but the fact that I agree with what he said makes it easier. The Bill has my support. It may not…20 Jan 2021HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Bourne, with whose words I agree entirely. We have four minutes; I shall try to take no more than one. In this Bill, the…19 Oct 2020HANSARDPost Office: Horizon Accounting SystemTo ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to decisions by the Criminal Cases Review Commission and the Post Office in relation to the Horizon accounting system, what is their…06 Oct 2020HANSARDPost Office: Horizon Accounting System[ Inaudible . ]—the largest number of referrals by the Criminal Cases Review Commission in history. Yet the Government are expressly excluding from the scope of their inquiry the…06 Oct 2020HANSARDPost Office: Horizon Accounting SystemTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress they have made in the review of the Post Office’s Horizon accounting system.07 Sept 2020HANSARDPost Office: Horizon Accounting SystemMy Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend. The delay to this review suggests that the Government are having some difficulty finding someone unwise enough to take on the…07 Sept 2020HANSARDEnvironmental Protection (Plastic Straws, Cotton Buds and Stirrers) (England) Regulations 2020My Lords, I welcome the sensitive way in which my noble friend introduced these regulations, particularly in relation to the exemptions—here I echo the comments of the noble…10 Jul 2020HANSARDBanks: Internet Transfers of CashMy Lords, what co-ordination is there between the Bank of England, the police and the National Cyber Security Centre in these matters?09 Jul 2020HANSARDPost Office: Horizon Accounting SystemMy Lords, perhaps I may explain why this review is so inadequate. The terms of reference have been designed to exclude all possibility of blame falling on the Government. However,…18 Jun 2020HANSARDPost Office: Horizon Accounting SystemTo ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by the Prime Minister on 26 February (HC Deb, col 315), what steps they have taken in relation to the establishment of an…18 Jun 2020HANSARDHorizon: Sub-postmaster ConvictionsMy Lords, when did the Government’s representative on the Post Office board first know that the Post Office had privileged access to sub-postmasters’ accounts, so that the Post…11 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: NHS Contact Tracing AppMy Lords, I declare my interest as chairman of the Information Assurance Advisory Council. In normal times, the cybersecurity advice that we would all give would be to keep the…18 May 2020HANSARDFood Supply and SecurityMy Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register, in particular as a director of Gusbourne Estate and as chairman of Electricity Resilience. My remarks will be devoted…14 May 2020HANSARDIsrael: West BankMy Lords, the last time I was in Israel, I told the mayor of Jerusalem that the settlements were a mistake. He said: “What do you want me to do, police the ethnicity of land sales…06 May 2020