Government compensation schemes are expected to provide people who have experienced harm, either directly or indirectly, from the actions or inaction of public bodies with the compensation or financial redress they are rightly entitled to. The NAO’s report examined the operational phase of a selection of seven government compensation and financial recognition schemes, including Windrush, Post Office Horizon IT (looking at four separate schemes within it), LGBT Financial Recognition, and Infected Blood. Our report concentrates predominantly on the schemes examined by the NAO and their operations.2 1 C&AG’s Report, Government’s compensation and financial recognition schemes, HC 1817, 17 April 2026 2 C&AG’s Report 10 Table 1 Scheme overview Scheme People eligible for Lead government compensation department Windrush Members of the Windrush Home Office Compensation Scheme generation and their families who incurred losses due to difficulties proving their legal immigration status in the UK. This was extended to any eligible person who arrived in the UK before the end of 1988 from any country and who is lawfully in the UK. Horizon Shortfall Current and former Department for Scheme subpostmasters with Post Business & Trade Office contracts who were (DBT) wrongly held liable by Post Office Limited for shortfalls in branch accounts and who were neither convicted nor litigants in the group litigation. Horizon Group 492 of the 555 DBT Litigation Order subpostmasters involved Scheme in the group litigation that resulted in a 2019 High Court settlement, following a judgement which ruled that the Horizon IT system was faulty Horizon Overturned Current and former DBT Convictions Scheme subpostmasters whose criminal convictions were overturned by the courts, or who were prosecuted but not convicted nor received a caution. 11 Horizon Convictions Current and former DBT Redress Scheme subpostmasters whose criminal convictions were deemed to have been malicious and were quashed by legislation. LGBT Financial LGBT veterans of the UK Ministry of Defence Recognition Scheme Armed Forces who were (MoD) dismissed or discharged because of the pre-2000 ban on homosexuality (Dismissed or Discharged Payment) and those negatively affected by the ban (Impact Payment). Infected Blood NHS patients who became Cabinet Office Compensation Scheme infected through receiving contaminated blood transfusions or products, and those affected such as family members and carers. Source: C&AG’s report, Figure 1