The government would have to pay around £ 122 million to a contract violation of a contract to supply millions of surgical gowns during the coronvirus epidemic to Tory Peer Michelle Mone, a company, a High Court judge ruled.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) sued the PPE MedPro, after the company provided 25 million “faulty” gowns which were not sterile.
A consortium led by the company, Lady Mone’s husband, businessman Dag Bairon, was awarded government contracts by the former Orthodox administration for supplying PPEs during the epidemic, after recommending ministers.
Both denied the wrongdoing nor gave evidence in the test in June, while DHSC lawyers said they were “not worried about any profits made by anyone” and this case was “just about compliance”.
The government is now recovering the cost of transporting and storing items with the cost of a contract of £ 121 million, which is an additional £ 8,648,691.
From May, court documents suggest that the DHSC said the gown was distributed in the UK in 72 lots between August and October 2020, in which PPE Medpro was paid £ 121,999,219.20 between July and August that year.
The gown was rejected by DHSC in December 2020 and told the company that it would need to pay the money. But the company could not repay the money and remained unable to use the gown.
During the test, Paul Stanley Casey for DHSC said that 99.9999 percent gown should have been sterile under the terms of the contract.
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