Post Office: Horizon Accounting System - Private Notice Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 1:02 pm on 6 October 2020.

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Photo of Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom Conservative 1:02, 6 October 2020

[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 Post Office Ltd prosecution function, the Horizon group damages settlement and the conduct of current or future litigation. Given that the sub-postmasters who sued remain impoverished and, in many cases, bankrupted by the Government, why have the Government excluded these most important things? Why are they punishing those brave people who brought this essential litigation?