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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Judith Duffy

UK Government criticised over 'woefully inadequate' Covid contracts records

People arriving at a Covid-19 testing centre

THE UK Government’s “woefully inadequate” record-keeping means it is “impossible” to have confidence that hundreds of millions of pounds of Covid-19 testing contracts with Randox were awarded properly, MPs have warned.

In a highly critical report, the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which assesses value for public money, accused the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) of failing in its duties to be “transparent” about meetings that ministers had with Randox Laboratories.

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