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Peer demands Fujitsu cough up £300m interim payment towards ... dvoevnore - stock.adobe.com By Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA Published: 27 Feb 2025 15:55 Fujitsu should make a £300m interim payment to the public purse towards its eventual bill for the costs of the Post Office scandal , says a Labour peer. Speaking in a debate on the slow progress of financial redress for victims of the scandal, Kevan Jones said Fujitsu had apologised and promised to pay towards the costs of a scandal – for which it was partly to blame – but is yet to pay a penny. Referencing Computer Weekly, Jones said: “Today, there’s been no money paid to victims from Fujitsu and this company is still making multimillion-pound profits from government contracts. “It is extending existing contracts, and that is at the same time as the taxpayer is paying out nearly £600m in compensation to victims, with many victims still waiting for compensation.” Jones, who has campaigned for subpostmasters affected by the scandal for 15 years, said Fujitsu is hiding behind the ongoing public inquiry into the scandal . “There will be no findings from the public inquiry that we don’t know now. I would sugges…

MPs criticise Fujitsu for not contributing 'a penny' to Post Office ... MPs criticise Fujitsu for not contributing ‘a penny’ to Post Office redress By PA News Agency Share 0 Comments 2 Skip to next photo 1 / 1 Show caption 1 / 1 0 Comments This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A group of MPs has hit out at Fujitsu for being “yet to contribute a penny” to the nearly £1.5 billion redress bill for victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal and called for urgent action to quash pre-Horizon convictions. The Business and Trade Committee (BTC), which scrutinises the work of the Government department, said it had found “serious structural failings” in the compensation process. More than 11,500 claimants have received payments worth approximately £1.48 billion, as of February 27, through several schemes set up to compensate postmasters who were affected by previous faulty versions of the Horizon computer system. Business and Trade Committee chairman Liam Byrne said the situation was ‘simply unacceptable’ …

Post Office scandal: MPs criticise Fujitsu for not contributing ‘a ... Post Office scandal: MPs criticise Fujitsu for not contributing ‘a penny’ to victims redress bill after Horizon scandal By Anna Wise Share 13th Mar 2026, 9:23am A group of MPs has hit out at Fujitsu for being “yet to contribute a penny” to the nearly £1.5 billion redress bill for victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal and called for urgent action to quash pre-Horizon convictions. The Business and Trade Committee (BTC), which scrutinises the work of the Government department, said it had found “serious structural failings” in the compensation process. More than 11,500 claimants have received payments worth approximately £1.48 billion, as of February 27, through several schemes set up to compensate postmasters who were affected by previous faulty versions of the Horizon computer system. The total costs of redress rises to around £2 billion once legal and administrative costs are taken into account, as well as for the Capture system which pre-dates the Horizon software. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad The Horizon accounting system , run by Japanese firm Fujitsu, made it look like money was missing …

MPs urge Fujitsu to make 'immediate' payment to Post Office Horizon victims Get unlimited access to 10,000+ magazines, newspapers and Premium stories for just TryGOLD- Free We use cookies to provide and improve our services. By using our site, you consent to cookies.Learn more about our privacy policy The Guardian June 19, 2026 The Japanese tech company at the centre of the Post Office IT scandal is facing calls from a parliamentary committee to make an “immediate” payment towards the compensation bill for victims. - Fujitsu supplied the faulty Horizon software to the Post Office, which led to branch operators being wrongly prosecuted over discrepancies in their business accounts. The scandal has been described as the worst miscarriage of justice in British history and was the subject of the acclaimed ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office. Thousands of post office operators are waiting for redress. Liam Byrne, the Labour MP who chairs the business and trade committee, said “justice delayed has become justice denied” for too many victims, and urged the government to “do whatever it takes” to help them get compensation. “Years after this scandal was exposed, far too many p…

MPs urge Fujitsu to make 'immediate' payment to Post Office Horizon victims Get unlimited access to 10,000+ magazines, newspapers and Premium stories for just TryGOLD- Free We use cookies to provide and improve our services. By using our site, you consent to cookies.Learn more about our privacy policy The Guardian June 19, 2026 The Japanese tech company at the centre of the Post Office IT scandal is facing calls from a parliamentary committee to make an “immediate” payment towards the compensation bill for victims. - Fujitsu supplied the faulty Horizon software to the Post Office, which led to branch operators being wrongly prosecuted over discrepancies in their business accounts. The scandal has been described as the worst miscarriage of justice in British history and was the subject of the acclaimed ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office. Thousands of post office operators are waiting for redress. Liam Byrne, the Labour MP who chairs the business and trade committee, said “justice delayed has become justice denied” for too many victims, and urged the government to “do whatever it takes” to help them get compensation. “Years after this scandal was exposed, far too many p…

Government urges Fujitsu to pay compensation to victims of Post ... Government urges Fujitsu to pay compensation to victims of Post Office scandal By PA News Agency Share 2 Skip to next photo 1 / 1 Show caption 1 / 1 This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Fujitsu has been urged by the Government to make interim compensation payouts to victims of the Post Office scandal. The call came as critics pointed out the Japanese tech giant had “paid not one penny” for the “havoc and misery that it helped to cause”. They also argued the under-fire company “should be nowhere near” new Government contracts as it emerged it continued to secure lucrative multimillion-pound deals with Whitehall, bankrolled by the taxpayer. The company has already acknowledged it has a “moral obligation” to contribute to compensation, pending the outcome of the public inquiry led by Sir Wyn Williams. Chair Sir Wyn Williams (Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry) The firm has come under renewed pressure after the publication of the first …

MPs urge Fujitsu to make ‘immediate’ payment to Post Office Horizon victims <p>Liam Byrne, who chairs Commons business committee, says too many operators are still waiting for redress</p><p>The Japanese tech company at the centre of the Post Office IT scandal is facing calls from a parliamentary committee to make an “immediate” payment towards the compensation bill for victims.</p><p>Fujitsu supplied the faulty Horizon software to the UK Post Office, which led to branch operators being wrongly prosecuted over discrepancies in their business accounts.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/19/fujitsu-immediate-payment-post-office-horizon-victims">Continue reading...</a>

MPs urge Fujitsu to make immediate payment to Post Office Horizon victims. £1.5bn paid from public purse, more to the come. Fujitsu paid zero. Compensation to Capture victims mounting. Urging won't do, need emergency legislation to force Fujitsu to pay. No one prosecuted for the scandal.

MPs slam for Fujitsu for not contributing ‘a penny’ to redress Bill for ... MPs slammed Fujitsu today for not contributing “a penny” to the £2 billion redress Bill for victims of the Horizon scandal. The business and trade committee (BTC), which scrutinises the work of the government department, said it had found “serious structural failings” in the compensation process. More than 11,500 claimants have received payments worth approximately £1.48 billion, as of February 27, through several schemes set up to compensate postmasters. The total costs of redress rise to about £2bn once legal and administrative costs are taken into account. Japanese firm Fujitsu ran the faulty Horizon accounting system, which made it look like money was missing from their branch accounts. It is at the centre of the long-running Post Office scandal, which saw around 1,000 people wrongly prosecuted and convicted between 1999 and 2015. The BTC said progress had been made in delivering redress to victims, but that thousands of subpostmasters were still waiting for compensation. Many victims still face delays, inadequate offers and administrative processes that “retraumatise” those who have already fac…

Provider of faulty computer system apologizes to hundreds affected by ... Provider of faulty computer system apologizes to hundreds affected by UK Post Office scandal A post office logo on a shop front on a street in London, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. Lawmakers trying to get to the bottom of one of Britain's gravest injustices are questioning bosses of the Post Office and Fujitsu as momentum grew to compensate and clear the names of more than 900 Post Office branch managers wrongly convicted of theft or fraud because of the Japanese company's faulty computer system. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved By Pan Pylas, The Associated Press Posted January 16, 2024 10:01 am. Last Updated January 16, 2024 1:26 pm. LONDON (AP) — Fujitsu, the company whose faulty computer accounting system resulted in the wrongful conviction of hundreds of Post Office branch managers across the U.K., apologized to the victims on Tuesday for its role in the one of the country’s biggest miscarriages of justice and said it was long aware that the software had bugs. Paul Patterson, Europe director of Japan’s Fujitsu Ltd., told a committee of lawmakers that the compan…