Experts who’ll lay bare what Sir Philip knew

THE EX QUEEN OF THE CITY Robin Saunders

The 54- year- old was once known as the Queen of the City as in her heyday Saunders helped Green raise finance to buy BHS in 2000. She sat on the BHS board prior to it being merged within Arcadia in 2009.

One of the City’s most high profile dealmakers, Saunders had a knack for befriending billionaires. She brokered a bond issue for Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone and her network of contacts included Iranian property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz and city grandee Lord Jacob Rothschild.

But it’s her links with convicted fraudster Paul Sutton, who tried to buy BHS in 2013, that have piqued the interest of MPs. She is understood to have been one of the advisers to Sutton and will be asked about his links to Chappell.

BOSS DROPPED IN TO TOP JOB Darren Topp

Manchester-born Topp has retail flowing through his veins but little experience as boss of a giant chain.

He worked as an operations manager at BHS under Green for six years until the sale when he was elevated to chief executive.

Prior to this he spent more than 20 years at M&S where he became a divisional director in charge of 200 stores in Wales and the West of England. He was responsible for 20,000 employees and annual sales of £2bn.

But running his own show at BHS was a big leap and Topp struggled when what the ailing department store group needed was a confident, experienced pair of hands.

SCOURGE OF PENSION SHARKS Frank Field

The no-nonsense Labour MP and chairman of the Work and Pensions Select Committee has made something of a hobby out of holding business giants to account.

Back in the 1990s as chairman of the then House of Commons Social Security Select Committee, the member for Birkenhead pressured lenders to return £200m of investments taken from pension funds by the late Robert Maxwell.

A former Tory, he is the second of three sons and his father was a labourer in Morgan Crucible’s factory in London’s Battersea. His mother was a teaching assistant.

Field, 73, leads the committee with a steely focus and does not suffer fools gladly. Chappell and Green will be on short leashes during their appearances.