PPE Medpro says chase our partners for the money
PPE Medpro says chase our partners for the money
A company linked to Baroness Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman passed most of the money it received from the government for personal protective equipment (PPE) to other firms, according to a spokesperson for PPE Medpro.
On Wednesday a judge ordered PPE Medpro to repay £122m as the gowns it supplied did not meet sterility certification standards.
However, £83m of that was paid to other companies and there was a "very strong case" for the administrator to chase them for the money, the PPE Medpro spokesperson said.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said his department would seek to "recover everything we can".
When Mr Barrowman spoke to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg in 2023 , he said PPE Medpro was set up as a consortium with companies called Loudwater Trade and Finance and Eric Beare Associates.
In that interview, Mr Barrowman said: "The British government would have preferred to always trade with a UK company, so we created PPE Medpro as a UK business, so that the three partners could provide PPE to the British government."
Baroness Mone, a Conservative peer at the time, used her contacts to enter the company into the "VIP lane" to get preferential access to government contracts.
PPE Medpro's spokesperson claimed that the company itself did not undertake the technical work of liaising with manufacturers in China, including quality control and sterility assurance levels.
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