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leave out from "accountants" to end and add"Burgess Hodgson,which appears to show that the liabilities of Equitable Life,including an appropriate reserve for terminal bonus,exceeded the available assets for most of the 1990's:is concerned about press reports that several witnesses,including at least one former director of Equitable Life,have refused to co-operate with the Penrose inquiry:notes that the then Economic Secretary to the Treasury stated in a radio interview on the BBC programme Mo...

That this House notes that the Treasury Committee took evidence on 30th October 2001 and 13 November 2001 in relation to the regulation of Equitable Life; is concerned that the Government no longer expects Lord Penrose to report in 2002; regrets that the Treasury Committee has no plans to take further evidence or investigate the conduct of the Treasury as regulator of Equitable Life; calls upon the Committee to resume forthwith its Inquiry and, in particular, to investigate the reasons underl...