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Horizon IT System

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Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 99105, tabled on 5 October 2020

Question

Afzal Khan
Labour
Manchester, Gorton
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has suspended (a) archival and (b) destruction of (i) files and (ii) other records on Post Office’s Horizon computer system.

Answer

Paul Scully
Conservative
Sutton and Cheam
Commons

Answered on

8 October 2020

Any relevant information located by BEIS that may be in scope of the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry recently launched will be retained by the Department until, at least, the conclusion of the Inquiry.

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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
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