Phoenix Venture Holdings collapse of the company. The report, which was only concerned with dealing with the directors and their actions while MG-Rover Group was still trading, revealed that the five executives involved took £42m in pay and pensions from the troubled firm before it collapsed. The report also commented on the personal relationship between Nick Stephenson and Dr Qu Li, who was paid more than £1.6m in the 15-month period up to April 2005 for consultancy services. Additionally, fellow Director Peter Beale was accused of installing a software application, Evidence Eliminator, which may have destroyed documentation relevant to the investigation. The investigators
The Equitable Life Assurance Society to the government's reply. In August 2009 Sir John Chadwick issued an interim report. Sir John is designing a scheme to help the "hardest hit" by measuring the losses suffered in agreed cases of maladministration with those of a comparable company. In the Queen's Speech following the formation of a Conservative-LibDem coalition government in 2010, the Equitable Life (Payments) Bill was announced. The bill will secure compensation for nearly a million policyholders (UK-wide) hit by the near-collapse of the insurer Equitable Life. The Government also announced that the final report from Sir John Chadwick in relation to Equitable Life would