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Alex Chalk said the IT issue could be compared to the Post Office Horizon scandal

The Social Security and Child Support Tribunal, which handles benefit appeals, is thought to have been most affected, according to the BBC.

The postal company said the ‘major outage’ was not cyber related but did not specify what had caused it

The Government is being urged to stop awarding contracts to the Japanese tech giant.

GMB union follows IWGB in seeking compensation for drivers unable to work

The current level of taxpayer funding for the Government-owned postal service was unsustainable, the Department for Business and Trade said.

Ministers to consider mutualisation as an option in first big review of the organisation in 15 years

The Department for Business and Trade launched a new green paper on Monday alongside a three-month consultation over the organisation’s future.

COMMENT : Before the Horizon IT system was found to be deficient, some victims were financially ruined, some imprisoned – and some took their own lives. Yet in the last year, Fujitsu still picked up more than 20 contracts worth nearly £800m. What sort of ‘justice’ is this, asks James…