THE Serious Fraud Office will take 20 days to investigate the collapse of car giant MG Rover, so a long-awaited official report into the demise of the motor giant can then be published.

Business Secretary Lord Mandelson told a committee of MPs it would not be "that long" before the investigation, which has cost £16m in taxpayer cash and taken four years to complete, would be published.

The minister told the business select committee that the SFO had set up a team of four and would take 20 days to carry out its investigation.