A former MP has told the Post Office inquiry he was not satisfied with the “brush-off” response he received from Paula Vennells after he raised concerns over subpostmaster complaints about the Horizon system.
Asked by counsel to the inquiry Jason Beer KC on Wednesday why he had asked the government directly about the matter in 2009, he said: “I was not hugely interested in the intricacies of who was responsible for what, I just wanted it sorted out and I thought I might as well write to the person who owned it, who was Peter Mandelson.”
“At this stage I did not know the truth of the matter but it was clear that a detailed investigation was needed. I thought it was conceivable but unlikely that all of these allegations were wrong — there were too many for it to be a coincidence, and by this time I had come across three in my own constituency .
Speaking from the witness box on Wednesday, Lord Arbuthnot also criticised the then Labour government for avoiding responsibility for addressing the Horizon IT scandal in 2010. “One reason is that if you have an organisation that is as important to the community as the Post Office, then the people have got to be able to have proper control over it, if the people own it.
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