Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to reimburse the complex cases in the Post Office Horizon compensation scheme announced in June 2022.

The Department has made provision of £19.5 million for interim payments to members of the GLO who are eligible. All but 75 of these payments had been made; over 60 relate to complex cases, notably bankrupt or recently deceased claimants.

The Department has been working with the Insolvency Service to establish the best way of ensuring that each postmaster receives as much of their interim payment as possible. The Department continues to strive to ensure that interim payments are made as soon as possible to all eligible postmasters.