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FOI2024-10337: Correspondence to the CEO of Royal Mail

Response to a freedom of information (FOI) request for information about correspondence to the CEO of Royal Mail which mentioned 'Horizon'.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and The Rt Hon Michelle Donelan
• Published: 28 June 2024

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

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Response: Correspondence to the CEO of Royal Mail

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Reference number	FOI2024-10337
Date of request	10 June 2024
Date of response	28 June 2024
Outcome	Information not held

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (the department) received the following request for information which we responded to under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA):

I would like to request the following information:

Any correspondence from the then secretary of state or ministers sent to Adam Crozier, then chief executive of Royal Mail, which mentioned “Horizon”.

This should be taken to include any emails, letters and messages in any format, and refined to emails if necessary due to the cost/time limit.

Please limit the above searches to the period 2003 and 2010. If necessary for the cost limit, please limit this to 2009 to April 2010. In the event that you exercise an exemption on any of the above data, please could you supply me with the dates of any correspondence.

There is a clear legitimate public interest in this disclosure. Crozier held a senior role during a period when concerns about Horizon were raised.

Published 28 June 2024