Source of Funding
Dear Post Office Limited,
As previously answered by yourselves you indicated that a payment of some £52.25m was paid to Freeths from your Barclays Account on the 12th December 2019.
Could you please provide me with evidence of the source of these funds. A study of your annual accounts for the past 10 years does not indicate that POL at any time has had access to such liquidity. That is confirmed by POL's negotiations with BEIS and the provision by BEIS of a new facility of £50m to cover such an eventuality of requiring £52.25m at a couple of days notice.
If the source of the funds was 'cash in the network' please provide me with evidence that the necessary 'cash in the network' was NOT replenished by accessing funds available from the Working Capital Facility provided by BEIS/UKGI
Yours faithfully,
Tim McCormack
Our ref: FOI2021/00065
Dear Mr McCormack,
Thank you for your request for information which was received on 2nd
February. Your request is being considered under the terms of the Freedom
of Information Act 2000.
The Act requires that a response must be given promptly, and in any event
within 20 working days. We will therefore reply at the latest by 2nd
March.
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Yours sincerely,
Jackie Lawrence
Information Rights Team
Finsbury Dials
20 Finsbury Street
London
EC2Y 9AQ
Dear Mr McCormack,
Please find the response attached to your Freedom of Information request.
Regards,
Jackie Lawrence
Information Rights Team
Ground Floor
Finsbury Dials
20 Finsbury Street
London EC2Y 9AQ
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