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Put up Workplace boss Nick Learn admits makes an attempt to get pay rise look ‘very poor’

By Editorial Board Published October 11, 2024 3 Min Read
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Put up Workplace boss Nick Learn admits makes an attempt to get pay rise look ‘very poor’

Put up Workplace boss Nick Learn has admitted his makes an attempt to get a pay rise whereas victims had been nonetheless ready for compensation “looks very poor”.

Giving proof on his third and remaining day on the inquiry into the Horizon scandal, the outgoing chief govt denied making an attempt to get more cash “interfered” together with his skill to hold out his function.

“I don’t believe that to be the case,” he informed Sam Stein KC. “I am very aware of the furore around my pay and remuneration, I’m not in any way deaf to that.”

He continued: “It looks very poor in light of the victims who are still waiting for their compensation and I very much regret the furore that has exploded and as a consequence of that has been a distraction for everybody.”

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Henry Staunton, former chair of the Put up Workplace, beforehand informed the inquiry he had requested the federal government twice to double Mr Learn’s pay and stated the chief govt had threatened to resign over it.

Mr Learn was additionally requested a couple of letter he despatched to the Lord Chancellor on 9 January this yr after the ITV drama in regards to the scandal was proven.

A word offered by the Put up Workplace’s authorized counsel was hooked up stating it was “highly likely that the vast majority of people who have not yet appealed were, in fact, guilty as charged and were safely convicted”.

Mr Learn denied it had been meant to influence the federal government towards introducing a mass exoneration of sub-postmasters.

The letter and word had been revealed on the Put up Workplace web site.

When requested if that was the “view of the general executive”, Mr Learn stated he didn’t imagine that was the case however agreed publishing the letter and word “looks pretty appalling”.

Nick Read, chief executive of Post Office Ltd, giving evidence to the inquiry at Aldwych House

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Mr Learn was additionally requested the place sub-postmasters’ cash, used to pay non-existent shortfalls of their branches, had gone.

He stated plenty of exterior forensic accountants had been “trying to assess what it is that has gone and where it has gone”.

The accountants have recognized a determine of “somewhere in the region of £36m between 1999 and 2015,” he stated – the years throughout which lots of of sub-postmasters had been wrongly accused of stealing.

“It’s our best endeavour in terms of where we’ve got to,” Mr Learn added.

Mr Learn joined the Put up Workplace in 2019 and is because of stand down from the function in March 2025.

The ultimate part of the Put up Workplace inquiry is because of finish in mid-November.

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