Post Office Inquiry urges North West operators to come forward

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Post Office operators in the North West of England are being urged by Sir Wyn Williams to share their experiences of working in the Post Office to provide crucial evidence for the inquiry into the Post Office scandal.

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00:00It is crucial that I get as full a response as possible to these surveys because we have

00:09looked long at the past, but now I'm coming up to date, so to speak, and I want to know

00:16about the present, both in terms of sub-postmasters' reactions to the present regime, survey number

00:261, and postmasters' reactions to the compensation scheme, HSS, in particular. I think I am now

00:38brave enough to say that I have stretched my terms of reference on compensation to and

00:45perhaps beyond breaking point. It's something I am very keen to say as much about as I reasonably

00:54can, so I need as much help as possible from those who are claiming compensation in order

01:03to make proper conclusions about what has happened and whether it lives up to the mantra

01:12of being full and fair. I want to stress that the surveys are not connected to the post

01:23office. I said that, I think, some weeks ago when they were first introduced, but I want to stress

01:29that because I can't help but think that there will be lurking in some people's minds, do we

01:37really want to get involved with this? Is the post office somehow behind it? The post office is not.

01:44This is for the benefit of the inquiry, and so if you find it difficult to speak about

01:52challenges which you still face, you people out there whom I am addressing, please be assured

01:59that these surveys are for the benefit of the inquiry and therefore ultimately for the benefit

02:07of me writing a sensible report about the information they will contain.

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