Patterson was answering questions from the Business and Trade Select Committee two years after telling the same group of MPs Fujitsu had a “moral obligation” to contribute to compensation for those affected by the scandal.
Arriving to hear the evidence, former sub-postmaster and prominent campaigner for justice Jo Hamilton said she wanted Fujitsu to “just pay.”
“Taxpayers have lost a lot of money over this,” she said. “They should give a chunk of their earnings back to them, to put in the pot, to help pay everybody,” she added.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has set aside £1.8bn of taxpayers’ money to compensate victims of the scandal, £1.4bn of which has been paid out, with Fujitsu having promised to contribute towards the fund.
But, despite repeated questioning from MPs on Tuesday, Patterson refused to say how much Fujitsu would pay.
He said the firm was waiting for the final report of the official Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, led by judge Sir Wyn Williams.
“Our commitment is 100%. We will make a contribution to redress, to the government, when we’ve seen the report,” he told MPs.
