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Mone-linked firm must pay back £122m for 'faulty' PPE
The Independent
|October 02, 2025
PPE Medpro, a company linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone, must repay the government almost £122m for breaching a contract to supply millions of surgical gowns during the coronavirus pandemic, a High Court judge has ruled.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) sued PPE Medpro after the company provided 25 million “faulty” gowns that were not sterile.
The company, a consortium led by Baroness Mone’s husband, businessman Doug Barrowman, was awarded government contracts by the former Conservative administration to supply PPE during the pandemic, after she recommended it to ministers.
Both denied wrongdoing and neither gave evidence at the trial in June, while lawyers for the DHSC said they were “not concerned with any profits made by anybody” and that the case was “simply about compliance”.
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