Alan Bates says he wrote to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer twice last month to set a deadline for compensation for the victims of the Horizon IT scandal. But the former subpostmaster says he has "never received a response". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I wrote to the Prime Minister about a month ago.
00:02You did, you've written to him twice.
00:04I wrote to him initially about a month ago and I said that it should be finished,
00:10it needs to be finished by the end of March 2025.
00:14A deadline should be set and we asked for his help in setting this deadline.
00:19I never received a response.
00:21I wrote to him a few days ago to remind him that I'd never received a response
00:28and also now we're at five months until the end of March 2025.
00:34The Prime Minister said on LBC on the 5th of January,
00:37he said to, he was obviously leader of the opposition then, he said this to the government,
00:44he said that the government should now, quote,
00:47get on with it, do at least get that bit right.
00:51But you've not yet had replies to your letters to the Prime Minister about setting a deadline.
00:57That's quite right and deadlines do need to be set.
01:01You know, you can't have an endless piece of string in this.
01:03People have been waiting far too long, over 20 odd years.
01:07There's over 70 have died along the way in the GLO group in there.
01:11There are people, you know, well into their 80s now that are still suffering,
01:15they're still having to put up with this as well.
01:17They shouldn't, they really shouldn't.