Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill Debate

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Nigel Evans

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Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill

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Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill (Programme)
2nd reading
Wednesday 20th March 2024

(8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Duncan Baker Portrait Duncan Baker
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My right hon. Friend makes a good point: the Post Office main accounts would have had debtors saying that they were owed money—

Nigel Evans Portrait Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Nigel Evans)
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Order. Will the hon. Member please face the Chamber, so that the whole House can hear him?

Duncan Baker Portrait Duncan Baker
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My apologies. The debtors would have said that those innocent sub-postmasters owed the Post Office corporate accounts what we now know to be tens of millions of pounds. But they were wrong—that was fictious and they were not owed that money. Will we ever get to the bottom of that and restate the Post Office’s accounts, which must have been materially wrong year after year throughout that period from 2010?

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