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PANORAMA — COMMUNICATIONS PLANNING

GRID

This grid sets out plans for informing colleagues of the forthcoming
Panorama programme on Horizon and external communications
tactics. It sets out roles and responsibilities and a timeline. All named
below should please check their responsibility and raise any queries
with Mark R Davies or Melanie Corfield.

Business area/channel Who? How? When? Materials Business lead contact
BMs, AM, CMs and RMs plus WH Smith BDMs Conference call June 23 Note and lines to take I Roger Gale
Crown/WHSmith plus lines to take
NT, Network, FCA teams Conference call June 23 Note and lines to take I Kevin Seller/Michael
Agency plus lines to take Larkin/Drew McBride
Lillian Moshe and team Conference call June 23 Note and lines to take I Kevin Seller
Multiples plus lines to take
Mark Ellis/senior managers Email update June 24 Note and lines to take I Mark Ellis
Supply Chain
FS/MS via FS Focus Email update June 29 Note and lines to take I Nick Kennett/Kevin

FS community

Cooper/Carmel
McCarthy/Jeremy
Law

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Conference call June 24 Note and lines to take I Amanda Stevens/Joe
Service centres, customer I NBSC/POEX/FSC/HRSC/complaints teams/social plus lines to take Connor/Rod Ismay
complaints media teams
Contract teams I, Lin Norbury, Paul Inwood , Cc Angela to brief w/c June Lines to take Angela VDB
22
Social media [strategy] Darren Jones/MD Meet/email w/c/ June Standard Twitter Darren Jones
22 response/lines to
take/Angela
film/statement
Advertising plan National media Full page advert I w/cJune I Copy Pete Markey/Mark
[contingency] 29 Davies/Mel
Corfield/Keith
Gulliver
Public statement Press Association/BBC Press notice June 25 Statement (proactive) I Mark Davies/Mel
(TBC) Corfield
Commercial stakeholders ° Bol Email w/c/June I Note: level of contact I Martin George
© RMG 22 to be determined by _I Nick Kennett
* pwe business owner
e DVLA
* Home Office
* POMS
e  FRES
e Suppliers
* Other [Colleagues to advise]
People stakeholders °« CMA Call/email June 25 Speaking note Nick Beal/Tom Moran
e CWU
«© NFSP
Other stakeholders Call/email June 25 Speaking note/email Mark Davies (Go

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* Go OnUK OnUK)
* POAC POAC (Jane Hill)
* Children in Need Children in Need
(Alan Taylor)
© = [OTHER?]
BIS Richard Callard/ministers Call/email Daily Materials for minister I Mark Davies/Patrick
Bourke/Tom
Weschler
MPs MPs Email June 29 Note Jane Hill
* BIS select committee
e Tier 1 MPs
e = Sparrow MPs
Central teams All central team colleagues Email June 25 Statement/lines to Mark Davies/Paul
take Swanton/Mel Corfield
GE/ET Group Executive/Executive Team Email June 18 Overall plan/updates I Mark Davies/Jane Mc
June 22
June 25
June 29
June 30
Board PO Board Email June 25 Overall plan/updates Paula Vennells/Mark
June 29 Davies/Tom
June 30 Weschler/Jane
Mc/Alwen Lyons
Senior leaders SLT/Band 4s Email June 25 Update/lines to take Mark Davies
June 29
ALL All colleagues (PO) All channels June 25 Message from Mark Davies/Paul
Paula/Angela film Swanton
Subspace Online/News Subspace Subspace News June 26 Message from Mark Davies/Richard
Paula/Angela film Weaver/Paul

Swanton

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TIMETABLE

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Monday, June 22 Meeting with Panorama Mark Davies
Contact with Panorama re interview Mark Davies/Melanie Corfield
Provide GE/ET with core materials for commercial I Mark Davies

stakeholders for ongoing briefing (based on core
note)

Tuesday, June 23

Briefing with Crown/Agency/Multiples teams

Mark Davies/Patrick Bourke/Melanie Corfield

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Email to BBC Executives

Wednesday, June 24

Legal letter
Briefing with service centres/customer
complaints/supply chain

Susan Barty [MAY MOVE FORWARD]
Mark Davies/Patrick Bourke/Melanie Corfield

Thursday, June 25

Board update note

Email to SLT/Band 4s

Issue Press Association statement

GE Update

Stakeholder contact (unions/NFSP)

Other stakeholder contact

Record AVDB interview for internal/social media
MD media training (for possible pre-Panorama
media)

Mark Davies/Alwen Lyons

Mark Davies

Melanie Corfield/Ruth Barker (TBC)
Mark Davies

Tom Moran/Nick Beal

Various as plan

Friday, June 26

Subspace News
Communications Conference call (timing TBC)

Richard Weaver
On call rota/Mark Davies/Melanie Corfield

Saturday, June 27 Monitoring On call rota/Mark Davies/Melanie Corfield
Communications conference call (timing TBC)
Sunday, June 28 Monitoring On call rota/Mark Davies/Melanie Corfield

Communications Conference Call (evening)

Monday, June 29 - PANORAMA DUE TO
BROADCAST PLUS HOUSE OF COMMONS.
ADJOURNMENT DEBATE

CEO email to business (inc AVDB video)
MP email

Memoview

Proactive media bid approach

Live Twitter rebuttal/response from
@postofficenews

National advertising? [TBC]

Mark Davies

Jane Hill

Jonathan Knox
Melanie Corfield
Mark Davies/team

Mark Davies

Tuesday, June 30

GE/Board update

Mark Davies

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SLT/Band 4 update
National advertising?

Mark Davies

MATERIALS REQUIRED

[All to be cleared with Mark Davies and Sparrow team]

Panorama emails

Team

Core note for internal teams

Mark Davies/Melanie Corfield
[Version done and to be cleared]

Lines to take for customers

Mark Davies/Melanie Corfield

Lines to take for postmasters/colleagues

Mark Davies/Melanie Corfield

Social media copy

Mark Davies/Darren Jones
Fix meeting

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Advertising copy

Melanie Corfield

Public statement/lines to take

Mark Davies/Melanie Corfield/Ruth Barker

MP note Jane Hill

Paula note Mark Davies

Angela film Melanie Corfield
[Thurs]

Board/GE/SLT/Band 4 notes Mark Davies

Subspace copy

Melanie Corfield/Richard Weaver

Legal letter (s)

Susan Barty

Media training

Brunswick/Mark Davies

BBC Execs letter

All - Ready

Letter to minister from PV

MD/Jane/Patrick

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