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HANSARDPost Office UpdateI thank my hon. Friend, who has been really dogged in her championing of Tracy Felstead and many others who have been affected. I was pleased to meet Tracy—who gave such tragic…19 May 2021HANSARDPost Office UpdateFollowing the Prime Minister’s commitment on 26 February 2020 and the ministerial statements of 10 June 2020 and 30 September 2020, the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry was…19 May 2021HANSARDPost Office UpdateI send my best wishes to the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (Chi Onwurah); I understand why she cannot be here. I appreciate the response from the hon. Member for…19 May 2021HANSARDPost Office UpdateI always welcome meeting the hon. Lady, and I congratulate her on her work for the all-party group. I appreciate her support for this change and I absolutely agree with her that…19 May 2021HANSARDPost Office UpdateI thank my hon. Friend, a former postmaster himself, for that. He absolutely understands the situation and has been a dogged champion. We did say that if things should change, we…19 May 2021HANSARDPost Office UpdateI thank the right hon. Gentleman, who has rightly been pushing on behalf of postmasters in general for a number of years. Yes, nothing is off the table. We want to get justice and…19 May 2021HANSARDPost Office UpdateThrough you, Madam Deputy Speaker, I pass my best wishes to Isabella Wall; I can only imagine what she and her family have been through. We will continue to talk about these…19 May 2021HANSARDPost Office UpdateAs I say, compensation packages are a matter for Post Office Ltd and we will continue to work with it on that. Post Office Ltd is working with wronged postmasters to determine how…19 May 2021HANSARDPost Office UpdateI thank the hon. Gentleman, who has been persistent in standing up for postmasters. The situation has been going on for 20 years—a long, long time—and it is so important that we…19 May 2021HANSARDPost Office UpdateI absolutely agree with my hon. Friend about the role that post offices play in communities, which is all based on postmasters. I speak regularly to the chief executive and other…19 May 2021HANSARDPost Office UpdateFirst, I can say that the work of Sir Wyn to date will not be wasted. That is exactly why we are converting the inquiry into a statutory inquiry rather than stopping and starting…19 May 2021HANSARDPost Office UpdateMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. My uncle was a postmaster. I remember him retiring and putting his savings into a post office in Leicestershire many years ago, pre-dating the…19 May 2021HANSARDPost Office UpdateAbsolutely. It is incumbent on us all, and I really hope that we can give confidence to sub-postmasters—not just those who have had their convictions quashed, but wider members of…19 May 2021HANSARDPost Office UpdateMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Sir Wyn will look at both those things—he will look at those alarm bells—because that is so important to learn those lessons. We cannot learn…19 May 2021HANSARDPost Office UpdateThe private prosecutions themselves, and the use of private prosecutions, are not within the scope of the inquiry, but clearly the way that the Post Office investigated this…19 May 2021HANSARDContingencies Fund AdvanceI hereby give notice of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy having drawn an advance from the Contingencies Fund totalling £3,380,663,000 to enable…17 May 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Use of Industrial Development Act 1982I am tabling this statement for the benefit of hon. Members to bring to their attention spend under the Industrial Development Act 1982. In addition to the obligation to report on…17 May 2021HANSARDDraft Employment Rights Act 1996 (Protection from Detriment in Health and Safety Cases) (Amendment) Order 2021I appreciate the spirit in which this debate has taken place and the agreement on the reason for the court case. It is right that the courts were able to consider all the details…28 Apr 2021HANSARD National Security and Investment BillI beg to move, That this House disagrees with Lords amendments 11B and 11C. The amendments made in the other place concern what is in effect a reporting requirement to the…28 Apr 2021HANSARD Redundancy Protection: Women and New ParentsThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. There are plenty of wider issues to be considered, including the right to request flexible working that we have heard about. Making that a…28 Apr 2021