Labour in new call over PPE contracts
Manchester Evening News|November 25, 2022
REPORTS a Tory peer may have benefited from Covid PPE contracts raise "far wider" questions about how the Government awarded such agreements, Labour has said.
Labour in new call over PPE contracts

Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner hit out at a "total failure of due diligence" as she asked about PPE Medpro winning contracts for personal protective equipment and "profits made possible through the company's personal connections to ministers".

She referred to reports in the Guardian newspaper, which suggest Conservative peer Baroness Mone may have profited from the contracts. The Lords standards watchdog is investigating the peer over the awarding of government contracts worth more than £200 million to the PPE supplier.

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