Fujitsu has ‘moral obligation’ to contribute to Post Office compensation, Europe boss says, as Alan Bates warns ‘people are dying waiting’ – live

Post Office CEO Nick Read and Fujitsu Europe boss Paul Patterson give evidence to business committee about Horizon IT scandal

Turning to Fujitsu, which manufactured the faulty accounting software used by the Post Office, Lord Arbuthnot said:

I hope that Fujitsu would accept that they have played a part in the devastation that has been visited upon the subpostmasters and they might also like to accept that they should play a part in the redress that the subpostmasters need now.

There are too many levels of bureaucracy.

We need to give the sub postmasters the benefit of the doubt on key matters