The Department for Work and Pensions will launch an independent review into its handling of prosecutions against Post Office staff, Sky News has learned.

About 100 prosecutions were carried out by the DWP between 2001 and 2006 during the Horizon IT scandal.

The "independent assurance review", however, is yet to be commissioned and will not look at individual cases.

It comes more than a year after Sky News discovered joint investigations between the Post Office and the DWP during the scandal - leading to suggestions some may be "tainted".

Hundreds of subpostmasters were wrongfully convicted of stealing by the Post Office between 1999 and 2015, due to the faulty Horizon IT system.

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