Post Office ‘unfit’ to run compensation scheme for Horizon victims, MPs say

The committee heard from lawyers that they believed it would take another two years for the £1bn compensation budget to be fully paid out. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images

The Post Office is not fit to run compensation schemes for those whose lives were ruined by the Horizon scandal, a parliamentary committee has said.

Just 20% of the budget set aside for compensation has been paid out, the business and trade select committee found in a report, and said an independent organisation should take over.