BUSINESS Secretary Jonathan Reynolds denied “exacerbating” subpostmasters’ trauma today after the Tories said that fewer than one in six of those wrongly accused have been sent letters confirming that their convictions have been quashed.

Between 1999 and 2015, more than 700 subpostmasters were prosecuted by the Post Office and received criminal convictions because Fujitsu’s faulty Horizon IT system made it appear that money was missing at their branches.

Shadow business minister Jerome Mayhew used business and trade questions in the Commons to accuse the government of “sitting on the letters.”