The award of large PPE contracts to a company linked to the Conservative peer Michelle Mone was part of a “panic-buying” Covid procurement process that exposed “serious defects in the government’s stewardship of public money”, MPs have said.
In a report limited by an ongoing National Crime Agency investigation into the company, PPE Medpro, the public accounts committee (PAC) emphasised general criticisms of the “VIP lane” process that gave high priority to PPE offers from companies with political connections.
