Post Office and Horizon: Ensuring fair and swift redress
Tuesday 27 February 2024, 10.00, Committee Room 8
Watch live on
parliamentlive.tv.
Former Post Office Chair Henry Staunton, current CEO Nick Read,
and former sub-postmasters including Alan Bates, will give
evidence to MPs on progress on redress to Post Office Horizon
scandal victims.
Mr Bates founded of the group of 555 former sub-postmasters that
won the legal case that was a watershed moment in the scandal in
2019.
MPs will also hear from legal representatives from the Department
of Business and Trade administering the GLO scheme designed to
compensate the 555, and lawyers for claimants of this and all
other schemes.
The Committee are seeking to shed light on the issues in the
various schemes to ensure fair and fast compensation for victims.
Witnesses
Panel 1 (from 10.00 approx.) GLO
Scheme
- Carl Cresswell, Director of
Business Resilience, Department of Business and Trade;
- Mark Chesher, Partner, Addleshaw
Goodard;
- Rob Francis, Partner, Dentons
Solicitors;
- Sir Ross Cranston, Independent
Reviewer, GLO Scheme.
Panel 2: (from 11.00 approx.) Former Postmasters
- Alan Bates, former sub-postmaster
and founder, Justice for Sub-postmasters Alliance;
- Tony Downey, former sub-postmaster;
- Tim Bretnell, former
sub-postmaster.
Panel 3 (from 11.30 approx.) Claimants’
lawyers
- Dr Neil Hudgell, executive
Chairman, Hudgell Solicitors;
- James Hartley, Freeths.
Panel 4 (from 12.00 approx.): Post Office
- Nick Read, CEO, Post Office Ltd;
- Ben Tidswell, Chair of the
Remediation Committee, Post Office;
- Simon Recaldin, Remediation Matters
Director;
- Simon Oldnall, Horizon and GLO IT
Director.
Panel 5 (from 13.00 approx.): Former Post Office
Chair
- Henry Staunton, former Chair, Post
Office.
