IT system working, says Post Office

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The Post Office has insisted there are no widescale problems with its computer system after announcing it has settled a number of complaints from sub-postmasters.

The company said it had completed investigations into 136 cases involving the Horizon system, with 56 now closed through mediation or other means.

The remaining cases will be put forward for mediation, apart from those which have been the subject of previous court rulings, while a working group set up to assess whether cases move forward for mediation will be closed.

Some MPs have criticised the Post Office for how it has handled claims that the IT system caused sub-postmasters to be wrongly accused of false accounting and fraud.

But the Post Office said nothing had been found in any of the 136 cases to suggest that Horizon has not worked as it should.

The system was introduced in 2001 and is now in use across 11,500 branches, processing more than six million transactions a day.

Angela van den Bogerd, Post Office head of partnerships, said: "This has been an exhaustive and informative process which has confirmed that there are no system-wide problems with our computer system and associated processes. We will now look to resolve the final outstanding cases as quickly as possible."

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Pure lies

These wasters are going down.

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