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PPE firm linked to Mone misses court deadline to repay £122m
The Guardian
|October 16, 2025
A company linked to the former Conservative peer Michelle Mone has failed to pay the government any of the £122m ordered by a high court judgment for supplying unusable personal protective equipment during the Covid pandemic.
Mrs Justice Cockerill ruled that PPE Medpro must, by a deadline of 4pm yesterday, return the money it was paid by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) for 25m sterile surgical gowns under a contract awarded in June 2020.
Reacting just before 5pm, the health secretary, Wes Streeting, said PPE Medpro had failed to meet the deadline and the government would pursue the company for payment.
The DHSC said interest that had been accruing on the £122m from when the PPE gowns were rejected as unusable in late 2020 was now £23.7m - making the total owed almost £146m.
This story is from the October 16, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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