Government response Department for Business and Trade: Accepted (Oct 2023)
Delivery No statement from Department for Business and Trade found

Recommendation POH-IR1-2: Publish Advisory Board meeting reports within 21 days

From First Interim Report: Compensation, published 17 July 2023.

Recommendation

The Horizon Compensation Advisory Board shall produce written reports in respect of each of their meetings in relation to each of the three schemes and publish the same within 21 days of the date of each meeting.

Jurisdiction: UK-wide

In brief (written by this site)

The Inquiry recommended that Advisory Board meeting reports be published within 21 days. In October 2023, the Department for Business and Trade stated that written reports of board discussions were already published and were issued within a week unless the board agreed otherwise, noting earlier records for the Group Litigation Order Compensation Scheme Advisory Board but not mentioning the three schemes (Department for Business and Trade response, Oct 2023).

AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 1 Oct 2026. The record below is the sources' own words.

Government response

Accepted Department for Business and Trade
26 Oct 2023
Words of: Department for Business and Trade, DBT response to the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry's first interim report: compensation, published on GOV.UK 26 October 2023

Written reports of board discussions are already published at the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board page. Reports of earlier meetings are available at the Group Litigation Order Compensation Scheme Advisory Board page. They are issued within a week unless the board agrees otherwise.

How this response relates to the recommendation

Site note: The Department for Business and Trade's response to the Inquiry's first interim report. The page prints no date; GOV.UK records it as first published on 26 October 2023, the date the site uses.

Delivery

No statement on delivery from Department for Business and Trade has been found in the sources searched (last checked 18 June 2026). This is separate from the response above.

Source

Report First Interim Report: Compensation 17 Jul 2023

Responsible bodies

Department for Business and Trade Primary

Who has spoken

  • Department for Business and Trade
    Response
Recommendation made 3.3 years ago