Fujitsu should repay the “fortune” spent on the Post Office scandal if it is found culpable, the Justice Secretary has suggested, as pressure mounts on the firm behind the faulty Horizon software.
If the statutory inquiry into the saga, which resumes on Thursday, finds the “scale of the incompetence is as we might imagine”, the Government would want to “secure proper recompense on behalf of the taxpayer”, Alex Chalk said.