Following the Government statement on the interim report of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal inquiry relating to compensation, James Sunderland calls for criminal charges to be brought against the Post Office and its IT advisers as a way of accelerating the process.
James Sunderland (Bracknell) (Con)
Where there has been such a grave miscarriage of justice, it strikes me that we should be pulling out all the stops to ensure that justice is done and in a timely fashion, so perhaps the Government might consider bringing criminal charges against the Post Office and its IT advisers as a way of accelerating the process.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business and Trade (Kevin Hollinrake)
On pulling out all the stops, I could not agree more, and that is definitely what we are doing in the Department. My days are never without one or other post office issue, which is not the situation we want. On bringing forward criminal charges, of course the Government do not do that, but when our enforcement agencies determine that there have been criminal actions, wherever those criminal actions have emanated from, we would of course expect them to take action.