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Post Office: Tory-donating Fujitsu director was rewarded with government job

Simon Blagden, part of Fujitsu UK leadership team during much of the scandal, now oversees £5bn broadband programme

By Adam Bychawski
Post Office: Tory-donating Fujitsu director was rewarded with government job
MPs are set to investigate whether Fujitsu put "profit before people" during the Post Office scandal. | Department of Education
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A Tory donor and former director of the tech giant implicated in the Post Office scandal was rewarded with a job running the government’s broadband rollout – three years after his old firm was found to be at fault.

Simon Blagden, who stepped down as non-executive director at Fujitsu UK in 2019, was made chair of the government agency responsible for delivering faster broadband and mobile coverage in 2022.

More than 900 postal workers were wrongly convicted of false accounting and fraud by the Post Office between 1999 and 2015 because of faulty software developed by the Japanese company.

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