A public inquiry began in February 2021, and will resume on Thursday after breaking for Christmas.
The system is quite simple. There is a piece of software written by the most incompetent company in the world that keeps winning government contracts. Hw long does it take to examine a single post office books, compare it to what the software concluded and see that it does not work.
Fujitsu is a kind of company that makes mistakes in their IT contracts and then charge their clients for correcting their own mistakes. They fucked up Post Office, MoD, HMRC and countless others.
https://www.ft.com/content/c38044f3-05cb-45a2-abbd-bc1b03551d9d
Government procurement records show Fujitsu was involved in £4.9bn of solo and joint public-sector contracts after the December 2019 ruling, including £3.6bn during Sunak’s time as chancellor and now prime minister.
When awarding contracts do they not look at the record of the work the company does?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67929650
It is not just Fujitsu, there is also CSC, the American IT company that screwed over the NHS.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/oct/02/csc-sued-by-investors-nhs-contract