Committee chairman Liam Byrne MP said: “The fault lies with the Post Office, but ultimately government is the shareholder in the Post Office and acts on our behalf”.
The government is already looking at the Post Office’s role in the compensation schemes.
Between 1999 and 2015 hundreds of sub-postmasters were prosecuted and convicted based on information from a faulty accounting system, Horizon, which made it look like money was missing.
Some sub-postmasters wrongfully went to prison, many were financially ruined, and some have since died.
One of those accused, Seema Misra, was eight weeks pregnant when she was wrongfully imprisoned.
Speaking to the after she was made an OBE in the King’s New Year list for her role in campaigning for justice, she said it was an acknowledgement of the “scale of the injustice and scandal”.
