GoKawiilMPs on the Business and Trade Select Committee have written to the secretary of state to demand answers over Fujitsu’s inclusion in frameworks worth more than £50bn in total.
Fujitsu is at the centre of the Post Office scandal, with its software having caused unexplained shortfalls that subpostmasters were blamed for, with many wrongfully convicted and imprisoned.
It was in January 2024, following ITV’s dramatisation of the Post Office scandal, that public anger boiled over. It was then that Fujitsu, which had just had its role in the scandal detailed to the wider public, implemented a pause on bidding for government contracts, while the public inquiry – which began in early 2022 – was ongoing. The final report from the inquiry is expected early next year.
Fujitsu’s self-imposed ban, which contained heavy caveats, stated that it could not bid for new public sector customers. However, this did not stop the supplier winning hundreds of millions worth of deals – and now Fujitsu has landed a lucrative government contract.