The lord chancellor, Alex Chalk, will hold talks with the senior judiciary to confirm how the convictions can be overturned as soon as possible so that the victims can have speedier access to millions of pounds of compensation. MPs are to be updated on the proposals this week.
Rishi Sunak said the government would do "everything we can to make this right for all those affected" and was looking at ways of "speeding up" the compensation process. "People should know we are on it and want to make it right," he added.
Options are understood to include blocking the Post Office from challenging appeals by hundreds of victims of the scandal, allowing postmasters to appeal en masse and passing legislation that would automatically quash convictions.
Downing Street said that the prime minister "shares the public's feeling of outrage" on the issue and that he would "strongly support" the honours forfeiture committee if it decided to review the CBE of the former Post Office boss Paula Vennells.
The role of the Post Office in private prosecutions is also under review. "If we are to make sure that a scandal like this can never happen again, we need to look at the way in which private prosecutions like these have been undertaken," the Post Office minister, Kevin Hollinrake, told MPs.
However, the government remains under pressure to exonerate the sub-postmasters in full after an ITV drama, Mr Bates vs the Post Office, returned the widespread miscarriage of justice, which took place between 1999 and 2015, to the spotlight.
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