
Covid inquiry latest: New report to be released as UK’s pandemic response comes under scrutiny again
Of approximately £14.9bn spent on PPE, nearly two-thirds – almost £10bn – was wasted.” Pete Weatherby KC, a lawyer for Covid Bereaved Families for Justice,…
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The Covid-19 inquiry chair, Heather Hallett, also criticised the then government’s controversial “VIP lane”, which gave high priority for PPE contracts to companies with political connections to the Tories. The most high-profile scandal of the VIP lane contracts was PPE Medpro, a newly formed company linked to the then Conservative peer Michelle Mone , which was awarded two contracts worth £203m after Mone first approached Michael Gove , the then Cabinet Office minister, in May 2020.
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The Covid-19 inquiry chair, Heather Hallett, also criticised the then government’s controversial “VIP lane”, which gave high priority for PPE contracts to companies with political connections to the Tories.
according to The Guardian - UKThe most high-profile scandal of the VIP lane contracts was PPE Medpro, a newly formed company linked to the then Conservative peer Michelle Mone , which was awarded two contracts worth £203m after Mone first approached Michael Gove , the then Cabinet Office minister, in May 2020.
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