Fujitsu will ‘possibly’ have to pay compensation for Post Office Horizon scandal victims, minister says

Fujitsu will 'possibly' have to pay compensation for Post Office Horizon victims, a minister said.Source: LBC

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00:00 You rightly point to the £138 million that's already been provided by the government.

00:04 I assume that comes from you, me, taxpayers, my listeners, the good folk of central Devon.

00:09 Can I put it to you, Secretary of State, shouldn't it be coming from Fujitsu,

00:12 which this morning is valued at £58 billion?

00:15 Quite possibly, some of it.

00:17 And what Kevin Hollingrake said yesterday in his statement to the Commons

00:24 was that it won't necessarily just be the taxpayer.

00:28 you and I and my constituents in Central Devon as you put it that are on the hook for this money.