Question follow-through · 25434
Horizon IT System: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to compensate employees of (a) the Post Office, (b) sub-postmasters and (c) shops that fulfilled Post Office functions who were (i) prosecuted, (ii) arrested and (ii
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 31 Jan 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to compensate employees of (a) the Post Office, (b) sub-postmasters and (c) shops that fulfilled Post Office functions who were (i) prosecuted, (ii) arrested and (ii
28 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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31 Jan 2025
Answer published
Regardless of employment status, individuals who had their Horizon-related convictions overturned, or were prosecuted but not convicted, are eligible to apply for redress through the Overturned Convictions Scheme or Horizon Convictions Redress Scheme. Pos...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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