Equitable Life Assurance Society

Steve Webb
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make it his policy to publish all reports submitted to him by Sir John Chadwick in the course of his work on support for Equitable Life policyholders; and if he will make a statement.

Ian Pearson
[holding answer 2 February 2009]: The Government will report to the House on progress made at regular intervals, and will make Sir John Chadwick’s findings public, to the extent consistent with his judgment of the possible impact of his advice on the rights of those involved in the underlying events.