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Official records show over £979m of the money wasted by the Tories on unusable VIP lane PPE is yet to be recovered.  

What do you do with the millions you made selling the Government PPE? Companies who got fast-track access through the Tories’ unlawful VIP lane are investing in bricks and mortar.

The government claims its Covid procurement was all above board. So why did companies spend millions of pounds on brokers who knew Tories?

Hotel Logistics shuts up shop, making it unlikely that millions wasted on useless PPE will ever be recovered.

The surge in spending on storage as the government panic-bought PPE is coming to an end, but the health department is still shelling out £890,000 a week.

Two contracts worth £258m to supply gowns and safety goggles were enough for the owner of a dog food business to move into a stately home. by Max Colbert

Medicine Box hooked up with The Plough to land a massive contract. But now the company has dissolved there’s little chance the money wasted on useless coveralls will ever be recovered. By Max Colbert

Nine companies who bagged massive contracts through the unlawful VIP lane have gone on to build empires on mountains of equipment deemed unfit for use in the NHS.

Fervent prayers for ‘the Conservative Party’ and a promise to ‘follow up!’ How Michael Gove’s emails greased the wheels of Unispace’s £679m PPE deals. with Russell Scott

Excalibur Healthcare bagged a contract for ventilators at £50,000 each. Now the Tories are flogging thousands of the same model – never used – for a starting price of as little as £100 each. By Russell Scott

Firms that bagged massive contracts have now stopped trading, meaning that hundreds of millions of pounds spent on unusable PPE is likely to be unrecoverable. by Max Colbert

Lord Chadlington, a former adviser to David Cameron, was behind ‘interesting’ £50m VIP lane deal for hand gel and gowns, more than half of which was unusable. The wasted money may never be recovered. by Max Colbert

Good Law Project can reveal that fast-track contracts handed out to Tory connections were 80% more expensive than other suppliers.

Almost 10% of PPE contracts signed by the Government show ‘some degree of dissatisfaction’, with storage costs for unused equipment currently running at £14m a month. by Max Colbert

Last year the Government spent £312m on storing unused or unusable PPE bought during the pandemic. Why are they handing out huge new contracts for facemasks?