Fujitsu is set to receive a further £180m in taxpayers’ cash to extend its contract to run the controversial Post Office Horizon IT system for a further five years. As revealed by Computer Weekly yesterday (30 May), the project to replace Horizon has hit major problems, and the Post Office has requested £1bn of extra…
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A former Post Office IT boss had the opportunity to stop it misleading the public over software errors but went along with false public statements that were in conflict with her professional opinion. During the latest Post Office Horizon scandal public inquiry hearing, former Post Office chief information officer (CIO) Lesley Sewell revealed she also…
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The Post Office’s most senior IT executive was given the task of researching whether Computer Weekly could carry out a review of an investigation into the controversial Horizon system. At the time in 2012, the Post Office and its retail and accounting system were coming under scrutiny following Computer Weekly’s 2009 expose of problems affecting…
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IBM came within a whisker of taking over from Fujitsu as the Post Office’s core system provider, until complexity forced an “anxious” Post Office into a u-turn, the public inquiry has heard. During the latest Post Office Horizon scandal inquiry hearing, it emerged that although IBM had started work on the £100m project to replace…
The Post Office general counsel failed to give the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) evidence that would have identified the biggest miscarriage of justice years earlier. In a 2014 response to a CCRC request for an update on a Post Office review of its own prosecution strategy and processes, Chris Aujard, interim general council at…
After more than 20 years, what is now referred to as the Post Office Horizon scandal has become headline news. Computer Weekly has played an important part in exposing what has been described as the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history. In 1999, the Post Office’s single shareholder, the UK government, began automating accounting…
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Fujitsu has won just one UK public sector contract so far this year, compared with seven at this point last year, following the angry reaction to its role in the Post Office scandal. While the IT services giant’s self-imposed government bidding pause has not quashed its appetite for public sector work, the fall in contracts…
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Fujitsu’s controversial contract with the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) was renewed because there were no other suppliers that could meet the regulatory duties required, but the service could be taken in-house next year. Following the announcement of Fujitsu’s first government contract of the year and a subsequent public backlash, the government has been quick to stress…
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The Post Office has extended a controversial agreement with IT supplier Fujitsu that will see it support two datacentres to the end of March 2025, at a total additional cost of £36m. Combined with an announcement earlier this year that a services contact with Fujitsu to support the Post Office’s branch accounting system, Horizon, was…
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The government is offering £600,000 to former subpostmasters who have had wrongful convictions overturned, to settle their claims – but a lawyer representing many of the victims of the Post Office scandal warns this could pressurise some to accept much less than they are entitled to. A total of 86 former subpostmasters have so far…
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