THE Forfeiture Committee is run under the auspices of the Cabinet Office and looks into whether or not an honour should be withdrawn after referral from a government department.
In this case, it was the Treasury, which referred the matter of Sir Fred Goodwin's knighthood.
The committee has four members: Sir Bob Kerslake, head of the Home Civil Service; Paul Jenkins, the Treasury Solicitor; Dame Helen Ghosh, Permanent Secretary at the Home Office and Sir Peter Housden, Permanent Secretary at the Scottish Government.
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