Question follow-through · 39770
Horizon IT System: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many people in Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy constituency have received compensation through the Post Office Horizon redress schemes.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 19 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 9 Apr 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many people in Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy constituency have received compensation through the Post Office Horizon redress schemes.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Apr 2025
Answer published
As of 31 March 2025, the total amount of redress paid has increased by more than three and a half times since the beginning of July 2024, with £892 million having now been paid to over 6,200 claimants. We do not provide information about redress recipient...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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