The Government kept "inadequate" records of negotiations towards more than £700m worth of Covid contracts handed to a firm linked to a Tory MP, an official probe has found.
Ministers attended eight meetings with testing firm Randox - twice as many as previously disclosed - but kept minutes for just two, according to the National Audit Office’s investigation.
The firm and its strategic partner Qnostics Ltd were handed £776.9 million with of contracts - 60% of which were awarded without competition under "emergency procurement" rules.
