Written questions

Horizon Shortfall Scheme: Appeals

Commons · Question 81288 · Tabled 13 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 16 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Dame Harriett Baldwin

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 13 October 2025 entitled Volume 1 of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry report: Government response to recommendations, HCWS937, what the estimate

Answer

Answered by Blair McDougall, 16 Oct 2025

My Department will start publishing legal costs associated with Horizon Shortfall Scheme Appeals as part of the quarterly legal cost publication on GOV.UK. The next legal costs publication is scheduled for early November. We work closely with legal repres...