Sir Keir Starmer has called on the government to reveal what ministers knew about the cancelling of an investigation which may have cleared sub-postmasters in 2016.
The existence of the investigation was revealed by the BBC on Tuesday.
“What did government ministers know about it at the time?” the leader of the opposition asked.
“What did government ministers know about it at the time?” the leader of the opposition asked.
The questions came after the BBC discovered that David Cameron’s government knew in 2016 that an investigation into the flawed Horizon IT system had been cancelled.
Between 1999 and 2015, hundreds of sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses were wrongly prosecuted after faults with computer software made it look like money was missing from their branches.
If the investigation into the system had shown that Horizon records could be altered remotely, it could have helped sub-postmasters prove their innocence much earlier.
But records seen by the BBC show that the minister responsible for the Post Office at the time, Baroness Neville-Rolfe, was told it should be cancelled on legal advice when a group of sub-postmasters launched legal action.
Sir Keir Starmer has called on the government to reveal what ministers knew about the cancelling of an investigation which may have cleared sub-postmasters in 2016.
“What did government ministers know about it at the time?” the leader of the opposition asked.
The existence of the investigation was revealed by the BBC on Tuesday.
The questions came after the BBC discovered that David Cameron’s government knew in 2016 that an investigation into the flawed Horizon IT system had been cancelled.
“What did government ministers know about it at the time?” the leader of the opposition asked.
“What did government ministers know about it at the time?” the leader of the opposition asked.
The questions came after the BBC discovered that David Cameron’s government knew in 2016 that an investigation into the flawed Horizon IT system had been cancelled.
Between 1999 and 2015, hundreds of sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses were wrongly prosecuted after faults with computer software made it look like money was missing from their branches.
If the investigation into the system had shown that Horizon records could be altered remotely, it could have helped sub-postmasters prove their innocence much earlier.
But records seen by the BBC show that the minister responsible for the Post Office at the time, Baroness Neville-Rolfe, was told it should be cancelled on legal advice when a group of sub-postmasters launched legal action.
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