Following her meeting with Post Office Chief Executive Nick Read and Tracy Felstead, Lucy today attended a debate in Parliament to discuss the management culture at the Post Office.
A series of MPs stood up to question whether the Post Office’s management structure had fundamentally changed in light of the overturning of convictions of falsely charged sub-Postmasters.
The official Inquiry by Sir Wyn Williams is about halfway through its work and Lucy is continuing to follow it closely. A second meeting with the Chief Executive will be taking place in January to see what progress has been made towards justice for those wrongly accused and convicted in the Horizon scandal, including Tracy Felstead.
At the heart of Lucy’s concerns is management structure and this is a key metric on which she will be assessing progress made in January.
Lucy Allan MP said:
There is a culture at the Post Office where nobody thinks they are responsible or accountable for anything the organisation does.
It was this same culture that led to terrible wrongs being suffered and which destroyed the lives of the powerless, leaving those in charge to walk away from the wreckage they created without sanction for their actions.
I will be closely following the Post Office’s progress in reforming its management structure, bureaucracy and culture.
You can watch the debate in full here.
