Actually HMRC now have the power to demand security over anything they assess to be the future liability. They can demand it in the form of assets, cash deposits or bank bond. It is entirely at HMRC's discretion what they can request. It is to be used specifically where :-

1. They failed to comply with their tax obligations in current or previous incarnations of any organisation.

2. HMRC are aware that directors have been involved in or connected to multiple business failures.

It seems like BCB think the deal has fallen through?
That's Hobbo on BCB twitter not a Mick fantasy special.

HHHHMMMMM this could get awkward... Hi Mr Lamb its Ralf sorry we messed you about, have you still got that £1m floating about?

Was there ever even a deal made? I doubt it.

I initially read that as "Wigan Lane"...bit of a trek for you all, but there is a decent pitch there (Wigan RUFC).

The sin bin was a very funny place to visit the day she died and for many days after

Indeed, and all the fuss over the funeral. If they'd given a shovel to everyone she put out of work, within half an hour we could have dug a pit deep enough to pass her on to Lucifer by hand.