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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Nick Lester

Post Office scandal: Awarding contracts to Fujitsu ‘appalling’, minister told

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Awarding multimillion pound government contracts to the Japanese firm at the heart of the Post Office’s IT scandal is “morally wrong”, the government has been told.

Critics in the House of Lords argued it was “appalling” Fujitsu continued to secure lucrative work, including a £48m deal to upgrade the police national computer (PNC), despite its role in what has been branded the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history.

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