The post office has appointed a specialist Investigator to Review the Integrity of Current Horizon System Data and the processes used to identify discrepancies.
This follows a report by the post office scandal public inquiry, Published in September 2024Which Raised Concerns about the current version of the controversial system.
Investigation firm krol will review the latest version of the system, which is at the heart of the Post Office ScandalWhoch Saw Thousands of subpostmasters wolded and some imprisoned for account shortfalls caused by computer errors.
A post office spokesperson said: “Post office is carrying out a review of the current version of Horizon. Discrepancy Identification and Resolution Process. “
“It come in Response to feedback from postmasters, Including Evidence Heard at the Public Inquiry, Highlighting Concerns about the current Horrent Horizon System. Postmasters, and GROPS REPERSTIS REPERSTES REPERSTEM Have been involved in the process, Including providing input to the terms of reference for the review. “
The third-party review of Horizon was Reveled in Novemberduring the post office scandal public inquiry. When giving Evidence, Lorna Gratton, The Civil Servant Who Sits as a Non-Executive Director of the post office on Behalf of the Government, Said there had a disxion over the currency of the currency of the Horizon System.
In relation to the discrepancies that subpostmasters continue to experience the Horizon System, She Told the Inquiry: “The post office is in the process of appointing an independent Third-party review of Horizon and Its Robustness. “
Missing transactions
The survey, published by the public inquiry in September 2024, Reveled that 57% of Current subpostmasters have experience unexplained shortfalls, Including 19% Reporting Unexplained Transactions and 14% having had transactions go missing.
Two-thirds of the subpostmasters surveyed (59%) said they were experience System Since January 2020.
Worryingly, three-certainers said they have used their own branch money to covers discrepancies or resolved the issue themselves. The survey also found that Nearly Half (48%) was disatised with how the discrepancies were resolved, compared with the 19% who were satisfied.
Fujitsu's Contract to Provide and Support Horizon is Scheduled to end in March 2026And the post office is currently in the process of Migrating all Horizon Data From Fujitsu Systems to its OWN, pending approval by the metropolitan police,
What Happens then is Still Uncertain, and there have been suggestions from sources that the post office plans to use a combination of existing horizon function, in-house software and off-the-sHALFALFARE Platforms for its next in-Branch it system, according to a source close to the project.
Computer weekly First exposed the scandal in 2009Rivealing the stories of seven subpostmasters and the problems they suffred due to Horizon Accounting Software, Which LED to the Most Widespreads miscariage of just justice in British history (See below Timeline of Computer Weekly Articles About The Scandal Since 2009),