Horizon IT System: Compensation
(asked on 2nd July 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many claims have been (a) made to and (b) rejected by the compensation schemes for sub-postmasters impacted by Horizon IT; and what proportion of those claims have successfully concluded.
Answered by
Gareth Thomas
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Claimant eligibility for each redress scheme is confirmed before claims are progressed. No eligible claims have been rejected. We have made significant progress in delivering redress to victims of the Horizon scandal. The table below demonstrates the progress made as of 30 June 2025, however there is still more to do:
Scheme | Full & Final Claims received | Full & Final Offers made | Full & Final Offers accepted | Full & Final claims paid | Proportion Concluded (claims paid/claims received) |
Horizon Shortfall Scheme: eligible claims before deadline | 2,417 | 2,417 | 2,122 | 2,119 | 88% |
Horizon Shortfall Scheme: eligible late claims | 7,750 | 5,160 | 4,774 | 4,732 | 61% |
Group Litigation Order Scheme | 460 | 452 | 336 | 334 | 73% |
Horizon Convictions Redress Scheme | 416 | 410 | 401 | 397 | 95% |
A further 71 full and final payments have been made to 71 (of the 111) postmasters whose convictions were quashed via the courts.
In total, approximately £1,098 million (over 1 billion) has been paid in redress across all schemes.