Luxe Lifestyle, a lifestyle company, was awarded a £25.8m government contract for PPE through the so-called VIP lane after the new Conservative chair, Greg Hands, was approached by a local Tory … Read more
VIP lane
Byline Times reports that companies that were referred by Conservative MPs and peers to the expedited ‘VIP’ lane for personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts during the pandemic have seen their … Read more
This week will see government ministers under pressure to explain how they assessed that a personal protective equipment (PPE) company linked to the Conservative peer Michelle Mone was fit to receive government … Read more
The Conservative peer Michelle Mone and her children secretly received £29m originating from the profits of the PPE business, PPE Medpro, that was awarded large government contracts after she recommended it to … Read more
The Department of Health has admitted to an MPs’ committee that it is planning to dispose of mountains of unusable medical equipment by burning over 500 lorryloads of it a … Read more
The Good Law Project has won its case against the government over the use of a “VIP lane” to award PPE contracts. In a written judgment, handed down on Wednesday, … Read more
A court has heard that ministers “lobbied” officials to chase the progress of contracts for the supply of personal protective equipment that were being processed through a government “VIP lane” … Read more
The High Court has heard how the NatWest suspended Matt Hancock’s team from making payments to PPE suppliers at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic over fears they were being … Read more
