After four years and expenditure of GBP16m, an official report analysing the events surrounding the demise of MG Rover in 2005 has now been completed.

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But we still don’t know what is in it.


A British politician, MP Richard Burden, extracted the status of the report in a question to business minister Ian Lucas.


Inspectors submitted the report on June 11.


Mr Burden said that the length of time taken to complete the report was “incredibly frustrating”.

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In his written answer to the Northfield MP, whose constituency includes almost all of the former MG Rover site, Mr Lucas acknowledged that the cost of the “complex” inquiry had been very high.


Mr Burden called on the UK Government to publish the findings of the report as quickly as possible, adding: “Like everybody else in the area I have found it incredibly frustrating that we have had to wait so long for this report.


“Hopefully the contents of the report will provide some answers to why it has cost so much and I certainly welcome the Government’s commitment to try to minimise the cost of any similar inquiries in the future.”