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The Guardian // Politics

Fujitsu ‘not a parasite’, boss says while refusing to give redress figure for Horizon IT scandal victims

Tuesday 6th January 2026, 5:37PM

Paul Patterson questioned by MPs as firm continues to make millions from UK government contractsFujitsu’s European boss has told MPs the company is “not a parasite”, after being criticised for continuing to make hundreds of millions of pounds from UK government contracts while refusing to give a compensation figure for victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal.Two years ago Paul Patterson said Fujitsu had a “moral obligation” to pay financial redress to the victims of Horizon – admitting it had known the accounting IT system was faulty since the 1990s – with the government estimating the final cost to taxpayers of payouts to be £1.8bn. Continue reading...

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