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1690924

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date	21/02/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Horizon IT System: Compensation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government on which department's accounts their commitment to fund compensation for sub-postmasters affected by issues arising from the Horizon software system appears.
tabling member printed	Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom
uin	HL2641
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>Just over £1bn has been committed by Government to ensure postmasters are compensated fairly. This funding covers the three Horizon compensation schemes: the Overturned Convictions scheme, the Group Litigation Order Scheme, and the Horizon Shortfall Scheme. Funding is agreed by HM Treasury at the relevant Estimate on the basis of the Department for Business and Trade’s forecasts for compensation.</p><p>A provision was made in the 2022/23 accounts of the Department of Business, Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Provisions should not be seen as an indication of the total amount of money available for compensation or how much claimants will receive; they are an estimate based on the latest information available.</p><p>The total discounted liability as at 31 March 2023 for sub-postmasters affected by issues arising from the Horizon software system was estimated at £600 million. This provision has subsequently transferred over to the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and an updated value will be reflected in the department’s 2023-24 annual report and accounts to reflect policy announcements and changes since last years accounts.</p><p>Provision values will not include compensation paid to date. Annual accounts are produced on an accruals basis and compensation payments are recognised on this basis.</p> answering member printed Lord Offord of Garvel question first answered 06/03/2024 17:14:03 answering member 4931 label Biography information for Lord Offord of Garvel
tabling member	56 label Biography information for Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom

1690962

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date	21/02/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Horizon IT System
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the total value of shortfalls claimed back by the Post Office from staff affected by issues with the Horizon software system.
tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
uin	HL2682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>We do not have an estimate. Postmasters who paid shortfalls which were recorded in Horizon to the Post Office are paid those amounts back in their compensation claims, as well as any other financial and personal damage which they have suffered as a consequence of the IT system. We have already made payments totalling £160m across all three compensation schemes.</p> answering member printed Lord Offord of Garvel question first answered 06/03/2024 12:02:53 answering member 4931 label Biography information for Lord Offord of Garvel
tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

1690977

registered interest
date	21/02/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Horizon IT System: Fujitsu
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to investigate whether Fujitsu staff had unauthorised access to the Post Office’s Horizon software system; and, if so, whether there have been any alleged cases of fraud or theft of Post Office funds by Fujitsu staff.
tabling member printed	Lord Truscott
uin	HL2690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>The independent Post Office Horizon Inquiry was set up – and put on a statutory footing - to review all the evidence to establish a clear account of the implementation and failings of Horizon so that a scandal like this does not happen again.</p><p>Until Sir Wyn’s work is completed, and all the evidence is known, it would be premature for me to comment on every aspect of this scandal alongside this inquiry which is there to get to the bottom of the facts.</p> answering member printed Lord Offord of Garvel question first answered 06/03/2024 12:04:57 answering member 4931 label Biography information for Lord Offord of Garvel
tabling member	3682 label Biography information for Lord Truscott