| Heading: |
Horizon IT System: Compensation |
| Question ID: |
1809411 |
| UIN: |
57541 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-04 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5351 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Gregory Stafford
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Gregory Stafford
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to provide funding for legal advice for Sub-Postmasters pursuing compensation claims. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-16 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
177 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Gareth Thomas
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| Answering Member handle: |
GarethThomasMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@GarethThomasMP
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| Answer text: |
The Department for Business and Trade meets the reasonable legal costs of postmasters in applying to its Horizon redress schemes, and encourages claimants to take up this offer. Legal cost frameworks and tariffs for each scheme delivered by the Department... |
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| Answering body ID: |
214 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Business and Trade |
| Tweeted: |
true |