BEIS

The government has pressed Melrose to make a series of binding commitments, including for pensions, over its hostile £8.4bn final takeover bid for GKN.

The Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) and the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee (BEISC) will hold two sessions to probe why Carillion went into liquidation.

Dan McLaughlin, a former policy adviser for the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), has been appointed head of public affairs and international at Smart Pension.