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  • Post Office welcomes Government announcement of optional £600,000 settlements for convictions overturned on basis of Horizon evidence

    Post Office today welcomed the Government’s announcement that people whose convictions were overturned on the basis of Horizon evidence will be given the option of settling their claims for compensation for an up-front sum of £600,000, without the need to bring a formal claim.
    Post Office Chief Executive Nick Read said: “Post Office is making good progress to pay compensation to those affected

  • Media Statement - clarification to Annual Report & Accounts 2021-22

    Nick Read, Chief Executive of Post Office, said:
    “I have made a personal decision to return voluntarily the full bonus payment attributed to the overall Inquiry metric in the 2021/22 Annual Report and Accounts. While neither the Simmons and Simmons report, nor the Amanda Burton report, found any basis to support suggestions of impropriety and both stated that there was a justifiable basis to m

  • Statement in response to Department for Business and Trade review Review of the Governance Relevant to Post Office Limited’s Senior Executive Remuneration

    Post Office welcomes the comprehensive report into the governance of senior executive remuneration. We regret the circumstances that led to the need for this report and have already put in place significant steps to improve governance further. We reiterate the sincere apology we have made to all those affected.
    Henry Staunton, the new Chairman of Post Office Limited, said:
    “I am writing to

  • Post Office statement following CCRC article on referring convictions and sentences to the courts

    Commenting on a long-read article by the Criminal Cases Review Commission entitled 'Why all Post Office convictions cannot be referred at once', a Post Office spokesperson said:
    “We are doing our utmost to encourage anyone who believes they were wrongly convicted to appeal.
    “That is why we asked the independent Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) to also make contact with people whose c

  • Post Office Statement on Sir Wyn Williams interim report on compensation

    A Post Office spokesperson said:
    “We welcome Sir Wyn’s interim report and share his view that victims of the Horizon scandal must be provided with full compensation, fairly and consistently. This remains our priority.
    “Across Post Office’s compensation arrangements, offers totalling more than £120m have been made to around 2,500 Postmasters, with the majority of these agreed and paid. Inter

  • Update on Post Office’s investigation into historical document containing racist and offensive language

    Following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request for documents held by Post Office’s Security Team during the period 2008 – 2011, a document was released that contained racist and offensive language.
    Post Office does not tolerate racism in any shape or form. The language and classifications used in the historical document is completely abhorrent and condemned by today’s Post Office.
    Post Of

  • Post Office appoints Burges Salmon

    Post Office has appointed Burges Salmon to advise it in relation to the ongoing Horizon IT Inquiry.
    Following careful consideration that began last year, culminating in a decision by the Post Office Board in January 2023 that a new law firm should be appointed, a competitive tender exercise was carried out via the Crown Commercial Service’s framework.
    Burges Salmon, working in an integrat

  • Amanda Burton Report – Clarification to Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22

    Amanda Burton, who joined the Board of Post Office Limited as a Non-Executive Director on Tuesday 27 April as the planned successor to Chair the Remuneration Committee, has completed her investigation into the error with a sub-metric on the Transformation Incentive Scheme for 2021-22.
    The final report has been sent to the Minister for Postal Affairs, Kevin Hollinrake MP, who has asked that it s

  • Post Office statement - release of historical document via recent Freedom of Information request

    Commenting on the release of a historical document disclosed via a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, A Post Office spokesperson said:
    “Post Office does not tolerate racism in any shape or form. The language used in this historic document is completely abhorrent and condemned by today’s Post Office. We fully support investigations into Post Office’s past wrong doings and believe the Horizon

  • Statement from Chair of the Remuneration Committee of Post Office Limited

    As current Chair of the Remuneration Committee of Post Office Limited, I have commissioned an immediate review into the awarding of payments relating to support given to the Horizon IT Inquiry in the Transformation Incentive Scheme in 2021-22.
    The scope of the investigation is to ensure that the Remuneration Committee’s policy for rewarding executives, and its implementation, is consistent wi

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