Exclusive: FoI request shows minister was warned by civil servants of ‘risk’ but focused instead on tech firm’s investment in UK
Kemi Badenoch failed to raise the issue of the Horizon scandal or compensation for Post Office operators when she met Fujitsu at Davos last year, instead focusing on asking the firm for its views on investing in the UK.
The business secretary, who was then trade secretary, was warned by civil servants in her briefing note of the “risk” around the Horizon scandal, in which Fujitsu supplied faulty software that led to about 700 post office operators being wrongly convicted of fraud.
