Campaigner told MPs deadlines must be set, and he had been waiting a month for reply for Starmer
has suggested post office operators could take fresh legal action if the government fails to set a deadline for compensating them.
He added: “Deadlines do need to be set. You can’t have an endless piece of string on this. People have been waiting far too long, over 20-odd years. There’s over 70 have died along the way … there are people well into their 80s still suffering.”, he said: “I would never say never. It is a consideration. I would not say I haven’t spoken to people about this.”
“How it’s turned out is it doesn’t seem to be for the benefit of … it does seem to be for the benefit of the department more than anything else, to run it through at their speed and their say-so.” Henry Staunton, the former Post Office chair, had alleged that Sarah Munby told him to “stall on spending on compensation and on the replacement of Horizon” and to “limp … into the election” with the lowest possible financial liability.
She added that she had neither seen nor heard any evidence that any member of the civil service, or minister, ever held had a conversation with Staunton or any other Post Office executive indicating that compensation to post office operators should be “deliberately delayed” in order to save money.– before moving government departments, did say that there was a “longstanding debate” with the Post Office about what government and Treasury saw as “excessively high spend on their own lawyers”.
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