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THE Post Office should be “taken out” of its role administering redress schemes for victims of the Horizon scandal, business and trade committee chair Liam Byrne MP says.
The Labour MP suggested lawyers hired by the Post Office were “stringing out” the compensation process to maximise their fees, and argued that the government needed to issue “really clear instructions to get best endeavours to get the cases settled quickly.”
The Post Office told the committee last month that legal fees have made up £136 million of the cost of administering the Post Office-led schemes since 2020 — 27 per cent of the actual compensation paid out.
Just £499 million of the budgeted £1.8 billion has been paid out so far, while 14 per cent of those who had applied to the Horizon Shortfall Scheme (HSS) before the original 2020 deadline had still not settled their claims.
