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HANSARDPost Office Horizon Scandal: Compensation PaymentsAs I have said, a detailed Statement on this will be given in the other place, and there will also be transcripts and meeting notes put in the House of Commons Library for full…19 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon Scandal: Compensation PaymentsOnce again, we are in a situation where we are dealing with private individuals and HR. We should not be doing that in this Chamber, or indeed in television studios; individuals’…19 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon Scandal: Compensation PaymentsThe response from management on this—and this has now been audited—is that issues with the software system are minimal, and £150 million of government money has now gone in to…19 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon Scandal: Compensation PaymentsThe reality is that the Government are not dragging their feet—quite the opposite. We will process the cases as quickly as they are put in. When cases are put in, and if the offer…19 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon Scandal: Compensation PaymentsThe Government are a shareholder, and there is only one shareholder in this company, if you can call it a company—I have never come across a company that has only one. Therefore,…19 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon Scandal: Compensation PaymentsThat is absolutely the case, and my colleague in the other place, Minister Hollinrake, has made it very clear that we will pursue Fujitsu for its share of the compensation. It is…19 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon Scandal: Compensation PaymentsThe government advice is that each individual claimant must submit his or her claim, and money is available to them to take legal and medical advice. That is part of the reason…19 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon Scandal: Compensation PaymentsThe issue here is that the sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses who run these shops know their accounts back to front—that is the whole point. They know to a penny what they are…19 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon Scandal: Compensation PaymentsA company’s culture is set by the board and the management. There has not been a prosecution since 2015, and no one on the board of the Post Office today was involved in the…19 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon Scandal: Compensation PaymentsI am rather relieved to say that I have no idea, so I shall write to the noble Lord.19 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon Scandal: Compensation PaymentsI am not aware that that has happened formally, but the law of common sense says that it must be the case.19 Feb 2024HANSARDCarer’s Leave Regulations 2024That the draft Regulations laid before the House on 11 December 2023 be approved. Relevant document: 8th Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee. Considered in…07 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Appointments: Ministerial ResponsibilityI thank the noble and gallant Lord for his question. To clarify my remarks, last time I said that the reputation of the postmasters had been enhanced and most people in the…07 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Appointments: Ministerial ResponsibilityI thank the noble Lord for that question. On the specifics, I will write to him on the actual timeline, but the reality is that Fujitsu knows it has a major part to play here. It…07 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill07 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Whitchurch, for her amendment, which the noble Lord, Lord Leong, spoke to so eloquently. I also thank the noble Lord, Lord…07 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill07 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI thank the noble Lord. Yes, the Government absolutely expect the CMA to do its job but in the consultation which comes from that, there are other voices to be heard and other…07 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI thank the noble Lord. The Government’s approach is definitely always to protect consumers, where necessary, and to ensure that business regulation is proportionate. We do not…07 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy noble friend Lord Moynihan, who was intimately involved in them, will know about the specific case arising there. In general, the feeling in the department is that we wish to…07 Feb 2024