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Commons committee demands answers from Post Office over inquiry bonus payments
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2023
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Darren Jones, chair of parliament’s business committee, has written to the Post Office to demand more answers after the company said it would not seek the full return of bonus payments awarded for work related to the inquiry into the Horizon miscarriage of justice.
The Post Office’s faulty Horizon IT system resulted in 700 postal workers being wrongly convicted of theft and false accounting between 2000 and 2014.
The Post Office admitted it had made mistakes in its handling of the process and 33 employees voluntarily handed back a total of £64,252 in bonuses awarded in relation to a specific sub-metric linked to cooperating with the inquiry.
Nick Read, chief executive of the Post Office, earlier this year apologised to MPs for the “error and the mistake” and confirmed he had repaid about £13,000 of his own £455,000 bonus package – or about 3% related to the inquiry compliance sub-metric.
However, the Post Office said in a letter to Jones last week that it does not intend to ask executives to pay back the full proportion of the bonus related to the inquiry.
Jones also asked the Post Office to hand over details of who was responsible for overseeing the bonus metrics related to the inquiry in confidence.
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