Post Office Horizon System Debate
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Natascha Engel
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Post Office Horizon System
Natascha Engel Excerpts(9 years, 5 months ago)
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Gerald Jones (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney) (Lab)
Concerns about the Horizon system are clearly of long standing. In the few weeks that I have been here I have heard from at least three constituents who have long-standing concerns about the Horizon system, and there are huge problems that are historic. I understand from one constituent that an injunction has been taken out against her for the sale of a property—
Madam Deputy Speaker (Natascha Engel)
Order. That intervention has been slightly too long.
Andrew Bridgen
I am not surprised to hear that from the hon. Gentleman. The management style of the senior management at the Post Office is Dickensian, and they have an almost feudal relationship with their sub-postmasters. This is now a national scandal. The Post Office has demonstrated that it is incapable of putting its own house in order, so it falls to this House and to this Government to do so for it. I therefore respectfully ask the Minister for a full judicial review into the Post Office Horizon system and the way in which the Post Office contracts with is sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses.