Horizon IT System: Convictions
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many subpostmasters had their convictions quashed as a result of the Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Act.
Answered by Heidi Alexander
The Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Act 2024 quashed all convictions meeting the conditions in the Act immediately upon commencement on 24 May 2024.
Following the commencement of the Act, the Ministry of Justice has been working through data from a range of sources and spanning multiple decades to identify convictions that are in scope of the Act and notify individuals of this where possible. As of 6 September 2024, the Ministry of Justice has sent 178 letters to individuals notifying them that their convictions were quashed by the Act, covering a total of 506 convictions. More letters are being sent on a daily basis, and we aim to have issued letters to individuals with a known conviction by early November.
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