Sir Fred Goodwin's Pension

A children's hospice which invested £5.7m in a collapsed Icelandic bank has urged the ex-Royal Bank of Scotland boss to donate £100,000 a year.
Professor Khalid Aziz, chair of Naomi House Hospice in Sutton Scotney, Hampshire, has written to Sir Fred Goodwin appealing for the funds.
The hospice's cash is tied up with Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander.
Sir Fred's pension has been revealed to be worth £703,000 a year. Prof Aziz said the cash would "change lives".
Naomi House - which looks after terminally-ill children in Hampshire, Berkshire, Dorset, the Isle of Wight, Surrey, West Sussex and Wiltshire - suspended its community outreach home service in December.
In his letter, Prof Aziz urged Sir Fred Goodwin to consider how he could "take steps to change the lives of hundreds of very poorly children".
"A contribution from bankers, like Sir Fred, who now find themselves relatively well provided for, could make the world of difference to the children visiting Naomi House," he said.
"The response of the children during their visits is astonishing."
A week's respite for a life-limited child costs around £7,600 - less than 1% of an annual pension of £703,000, a hospice spokeswoman said.
Mr Aziz's plea comes after charities minister Kevin Brennan recently told the hospice in a letter "he could offer no direct assistance".
The charity may also have to delay the opening of its new £12m hospice for teenagers and young people.

Honours watchdog the Forfeiture Committee is to consider whether it should act to strip former RBS boss Sir Fred Goodwin of his knighthood.
Sir Fred took early retirement from RBS last year after the bank needed a £20bn bailout from the government.
Some Labour MPs called for the former chief executive to lose his title.
But Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell said the watchdog usually responded to judgements by the courts or relevant regulatory or professional bodies.
There has been widespread public and political anger over Sir Fred's pension payout, worth about £700,000 a year.
Sir Fred was knighted for services to banking in 2004.
Labour backbencher Gordon Prentice said: "Sir Fred was the central figure in the collapse of a major Scottish institution.
"In these circumstances, retaining a knighthood awarded 'for services to banking' strikes me as bizarre."

Evidence

In a letter to Mr Prentice, Sir Gus said: "I will, of course, put the points you have made to the Forfeiture Committee, which will look at them against the background I have sketched out above and decide whether any action on its part is appropriate."
He wrote that the committee did "not have a role in supervising or monitoring the subsequent activities of all those who have been granted honours by the state".
"Its role is rather to consider cases for forfeiture in the light of evidence put to it and relevant precedents.
"The normal sources of such evidence are judgments by the courts or by the appropriate regulatory or other professional bodies."
Previous cases had involved a "clear determination of guilt by the appropriate regulatory, judicial or other competent authority on the basis of evidence put to it", Sir Gus wrote.
"The Forfeiture Committee then decided whether the individual's honour should be forfeited. The committee is not normally involved prior to any findings by the appropriate authorities."