PPE
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UK: £17 Billion COVID-19 contracts
Our challenge to Government’s decision to hide COVID-19 spending has led it to disclose that the Department of Health has handed £17 billion worth of COVID-19 contracts to private companies since April. Fresh analysis by Tussell reveals Government has failed to publish details of £4.4billion of these contracts. Continue reading
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Cabinet contacts awarded COVID contracts
Leaked documents seen by Good Law Project set out special pathways by which “VIP” and “Cabinet Office” contacts could be awarded lucrative PPE contracts at the height of the pandemic – and at inflated prices. Continue reading
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UK: They are 6 months late
16 October 2020 — Good Law Project You may remember Crisp Websites Limited, trading as PestFix, the company with last reported net assets of £18,047. On the 10th June, we sent a judicial review pre-action protocol letter to the Government asking why they had agreed to pay 75% upfront for isolation suits worth £32m, to PestFix. PestFix Continue reading
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Goodlaw Project: Jacob Rees-Mogg
Yesterday in Parliament, Jacob Rees-Mogg MP was questioned over the PPE fiasco that has seen the Government spend hundreds of millions of pounds on protective equipment that can’t be used by the NHS. The contract in question was handed to Ayanda Capital, an opaque private fund, with links to a Government advisor. His response? Continue reading
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PPE: Why are they refusing to publish the contracts?
We know from Treasury documents that Government has approved a staggering and unprecedented £15 billion for PPE procurement to protect frontline staff. But what we see is implausible counterparties, staggering sums of money, political connections, vast waste on duff product – and most of all a lack of transparency. Continue reading
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The PPE that can’t be used by the NHS that cost £250 Million
The Government awarded a PPE contract worth £252 million to Ayanda Capital Limited, a ‘family office’ owned through a tax haven in Mauritius, with connections to Liz Truss. It is the largest PPE contract we have seen to date. Continue reading
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Stinking Tory Corruption
I wrote a furious article about the £250 million PPE contract inexplicably awarded to the “family office” Ayanda Capital, an investment house for private wealth tax avoidance. We now learn £150 million of face masks delivered are unusable as they do not meet the required standards. Continue reading
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UK PPE Fiasco
On Monday evening, Good Law Project is hosting a live panel discussion on our cases to challenge the award of huge PPE contracts to a number of companies, seemingly without any advertising or competitive tender process. Continue reading
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UK: They think they are above the law
On 11 July, we issued judicial review proceedings against Michael Gove for awarding an £840,000 contract to long-time associates of his and Mr Cummings’. You can read the documents relating to that claim here. Continue reading
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BBC Panorama exposes government responsibility for UK health worker deaths
Monday’s investigation by BBC’s Panorama, “Has the Government Failed the NHS?” was a staggering indictment of the Conservative government’s failure to provide health workers with personal protective equipment (PPE). Continue reading
The New Dark Age 