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Bottomline Think Green Award Presented to Parcelforce Worldwide

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Tuesday, July 6, 2021
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PORTSMOUTH, N.H., July 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bottomline (NASDAQ: EPAY), a leading provider of financial technology that makes complex business payments simple, smart and secure, today named Parcelforce Worldwide as the 2021 recipient of the Bottomline Think Green award.

Key Points: 
  • PORTSMOUTH, N.H., July 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bottomline (NASDAQ: EPAY), a leading provider of financial technology that makes complex business payments simple, smart and secure, today named Parcelforce Worldwide as the 2021 recipient of the Bottomline Think Green award.
  • The award, first given in 2009, recognizes organizations that use Bottomline technology solutions to drive environmentally-friendly and sustainable business practices.
  • Adopting Bottomlines Direct Debit Management solution directly supports our commitment to continuous sustainability practices across our business processes, said James Treble, Business Analyst, Parcelforce Worldwide.
  • Parcelforce Worldwide provides express parcel delivery across the UK and worldwide covering B2B, B2C and C2C market segments.

Telecoms firm, Barclay Communications, calls on UK businesses to put an end to unethical auto-rolling contracts which costs tens of millions of pounds per year

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Tuesday, May 4, 2021
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He is encouraging businesses to sign a petition to ban the restrictive practice.\nMr Megahey, whose business supplies mobile, landline and software services to over 100,000 businesses across the UK and Ireland, said:\n"Auto-rolling is exploitative and a very real concern.

Key Points: 
  • He is encouraging businesses to sign a petition to ban the restrictive practice.\nMr Megahey, whose business supplies mobile, landline and software services to over 100,000 businesses across the UK and Ireland, said:\n"Auto-rolling is exploitative and a very real concern.
  • It\'s a UK wide problem.\n"We have experienced savings of over 50% for many customers and discovered that the majority have not reviewed their rates in over 10 years.\n"Wearenow encouraging businesses to stand with us and make a difference by signing our online petition and by sharing their experience of auto-rolling.
  • We will present all information to the industry regulator, Ofcom, to encourage change in these regulations.
  • "\nBarclay Communications kick started its campaign in Northern Ireland last month, with hundreds of businesses signing the petition and sharing their experiences.\n'

Urgent question: Sub-postmasters wrongly convicted in the Post Office Horizon scandal

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Thursday, June 11, 2020
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Chi Onwurah asked an urgent question to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Business,PaulScullyon steps the Government is taking to support sub-postmasters wrongly convicted in the Post Office Horizon scandal.

Key Points: 
  • Chi Onwurah asked an urgent question to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Business,PaulScullyon steps the Government is taking to support sub-postmasters wrongly convicted in the Post Office Horizon scandal.
  • Last year 550 claimants brought group legal action over the Post Office's Horizon computer system.
  • He said that the Post Office are"cooperating" with the CCRC "to the fullest extent"and the Government is monitoring the process.
  • She said that the Horizon scandal "may be the largest miscarriage of justice in our history"with 900 prosecutions.

Urgent question: Sub-postmasters wrongly convicted in the Post Office Horizon scandal

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Thursday, June 11, 2020
Postal system of the United Kingdom, Chi Onwurah, Onwurah, Miscarriage of justice, Horizon, Postmaster, Post Office Ltd, Event horizon, Government, British MPs, Economy of the United Kingdom

Chi Onwurah asked an urgent question to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Business,PaulScullyon steps the Government is taking to support sub-postmasters wrongly convicted in the Post Office Horizon scandal.

Key Points: 
  • Chi Onwurah asked an urgent question to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Business,PaulScullyon steps the Government is taking to support sub-postmasters wrongly convicted in the Post Office Horizon scandal.
  • Last year 550 claimants brought group legal action over the Post Office's Horizon computer system.
  • He said that the Post Office are"cooperating" with the CCRC "to the fullest extent"and the Government is monitoring the process.
  • She said that the Horizon scandal "may be the largest miscarriage of justice in our history"with 900 prosecutions.

BEIS Chair writes to Post Office & Fujitsu

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Thursday, June 4, 2020
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Darren Jones, Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, has written today to current Post Office Ltd CEO, Nick Read, the former CEO, Paula Vennells, and to Fujitsu with a series of questions relating to the handling of the Horizon IT scandal and the Committees inquiry.

Key Points: 
  • Darren Jones, Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, has written today to current Post Office Ltd CEO, Nick Read, the former CEO, Paula Vennells, and to Fujitsu with a series of questions relating to the handling of the Horizon IT scandal and the Committees inquiry.
  • Its important that the Post Office and Fujitsu now respond fully to the BEIS Committees questions over their actions and oversight during this period.
  • The Committees evidence session on 24 March on the Post Office and Horizon with Post Office Ltd CEO, Nick Read, the former CEO, Paula Vennells, and Fujitsu had been scheduled for Tuesday 24th March but was postponed due to the Covid-19 lockdown.
  • The BEIS Committees inquiry had been looking at the impact on sub-postmasters and its effect on the future viability of the Post Office, and examining the lessons the Government and Post Office Ltd had learned from a scandal which saw hundreds of sub-postmasters accused of fraud.

BEIS Chair writes to Post Office & Fujitsu

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Thursday, June 4, 2020
Postal system of the United Kingdom, Companies, Horizon, Paula Vennells, Post Office Ltd, Fujitsu, Economy of Japan, Postmaster, Industries

Darren Jones, Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, has written today to current Post Office Ltd CEO, Nick Read, the former CEO, Paula Vennells, and to Fujitsu with a series of questions relating to the handling of the Horizon IT scandal and the Committees inquiry.

Key Points: 
  • Darren Jones, Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, has written today to current Post Office Ltd CEO, Nick Read, the former CEO, Paula Vennells, and to Fujitsu with a series of questions relating to the handling of the Horizon IT scandal and the Committees inquiry.
  • Its important that the Post Office and Fujitsu now respond fully to the BEIS Committees questions over their actions and oversight during this period.
  • The Committees evidence session on 24 March on the Post Office and Horizon with Post Office Ltd CEO, Nick Read, the former CEO, Paula Vennells, and Fujitsu had been scheduled for Tuesday 24th March but was postponed due to the Covid-19 lockdown.
  • The BEIS Committees inquiry had been looking at the impact on sub-postmasters and its effect on the future viability of the Post Office, and examining the lessons the Government and Post Office Ltd had learned from a scandal which saw hundreds of sub-postmasters accused of fraud.

BEIS Chair writes to Post Office & Fujitsu

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, June 4, 2020
Postal system of the United Kingdom, Companies, Horizon, Paula Vennells, Post Office Ltd, Fujitsu, Economy of Japan, Postmaster, Industries

Darren Jones, Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, has written today to current Post Office Ltd CEO, Nick Read, the former CEO, Paula Vennells, and to Fujitsu with a series of questions relating to the handling of the Horizon IT scandal and the Committees inquiry.

Key Points: 
  • Darren Jones, Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, has written today to current Post Office Ltd CEO, Nick Read, the former CEO, Paula Vennells, and to Fujitsu with a series of questions relating to the handling of the Horizon IT scandal and the Committees inquiry.
  • Its important that the Post Office and Fujitsu now respond fully to the BEIS Committees questions over their actions and oversight during this period.
  • The Committees evidence session on 24 March on the Post Office and Horizon with Post Office Ltd CEO, Nick Read, the former CEO, Paula Vennells, and Fujitsu had been scheduled for Tuesday 24th March but was postponed due to the Covid-19 lockdown.
  • The BEIS Committees inquiry had been looking at the impact on sub-postmasters and its effect on the future viability of the Post Office, and examining the lessons the Government and Post Office Ltd had learned from a scandal which saw hundreds of sub-postmasters accused of fraud.

Government response to Post Office Network report published

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Tuesday, June 2, 2020
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The Governments response to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee report on the Future of the Post Office Network has been published today.

Key Points: 
  • The Governments response to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee report on the Future of the Post Office Network has been published today.
  • The reality, however, is that our Post Office network remains fragile and, on the central issue of the Network Subsidy, the Government fails to give an assurance that future funding will continue beyond 2021.
  • Nor does the Government take the opportunity to explicitly commit to maintaining the 11,500 Post Office branches that BEIS Ministers barely months ago said were necessary to sustain a national Post Office Network.
  • On 25 October 2019, the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee published its First Report of Session 2019, Future of the Post Office Network (HC 247).

Government response to Post Office Network report published

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Economy of the United Kingdom, Post Office Ltd, Postal system of the United Kingdom, Royal Mail, Economy of Europe, Economy, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

The Governments response to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee report on the Future of the Post Office Network has been published today.

Key Points: 
  • The Governments response to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee report on the Future of the Post Office Network has been published today.
  • The reality, however, is that our Post Office network remains fragile and, on the central issue of the Network Subsidy, the Government fails to give an assurance that future funding will continue beyond 2021.
  • Nor does the Government take the opportunity to explicitly commit to maintaining the 11,500 Post Office branches that BEIS Ministers barely months ago said were necessary to sustain a national Post Office Network.
  • On 25 October 2019, the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee published its First Report of Session 2019, Future of the Post Office Network (HC 247).

Government response to Post Office Network report published

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Economy of the United Kingdom, Post Office Ltd, Postal system of the United Kingdom, Royal Mail, Economy of Europe, Economy, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

The Governments response to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee report on the Future of the Post Office Network has been published today.

Key Points: 
  • The Governments response to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee report on the Future of the Post Office Network has been published today.
  • The reality, however, is that our Post Office network remains fragile and, on the central issue of the Network Subsidy, the Government fails to give an assurance that future funding will continue beyond 2021.
  • Nor does the Government take the opportunity to explicitly commit to maintaining the 11,500 Post Office branches that BEIS Ministers barely months ago said were necessary to sustain a national Post Office Network.
  • On 25 October 2019, the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee published its First Report of Session 2019, Future of the Post Office Network (HC 247).