I can only presume that whatever compulsory interest rate has been awarded is not onerous enough to prompt rapid resolution and has only encouraged the 'slow walk'.
It is for a period from 2015 to potentially 2022. It took around 3 years of legal debate for the courts to rule (2018) on a period that would end under 4 years later (2022). We will have spent more years waiting for the resolution than it took the courts to rule against the scheme in question.
I cannot accept that "Delivering this remedy will take time as legislation must be passed, policies need to be developed and complex IT changes are required" . Too many years have elapsed for the MoD to claim 'surprise' at the changes needed given the work completed by HMT ahead of the legal proceedings. These changes should have been scoped and implemented along the way, not kicked down the road.
Last edited by Just This Once...; 24th Aug 2021 at 21:38.