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MPs concerned Arcadia rescue plan will fail


By Jack Gray

The Work and Pensions Select Committee has written to The Pensions Regulator (TPR) over concerns that the plan to rescue the Arcadia Group pension scheme will fail.

In the letter to TPR chief executive Charles Counsell, Work and Pensions Select Committee chair Frank Field said that, due to the uncertainty facing Arcadia owner Taveta Investments, it seemed likely that the plan will fail


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