A committee of MPs has urged the government to face financial penalties if it doesn't expedite compensation for victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal. The report highlights the Post Office's substantial legal expenditure (£136m) and recommends legally binding timeframes for each stage of the claims process. Victims should receive government penalties if their claims aren't handled within these limits.
A committee of MPs has called for the government to be fined if it fails to provide redress quickly enough to victims of the Horizon software scandal, as its report said the Post Office has spent at least £136m on legal fees . New legally enforceable time limits for each stage of claim processing should be introduced, a report from the Business and Trade Committee has said.
Applications place an 'excessive burden' on claimants to 'grapple complex legal concepts' on the amount of redress they're owed and requests for information about the losses Horizon caused, despite no longer having access to Horizon data. There have been delays in processing requests for disclosures from the Post Office, the report found.
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