High Court rules Baroness Mone-linked company breached £122m Covid contract

A medical provide firm linked to see Baroness Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman has been ordered to pay £122m in damages after a choose dominated it breached a authorities contract for the availability of non-public protecting gear (PPE) in the course of the Covid pandemic.The Division of Well being and Social Care sued PPE Medpro over claims the medical robes it equipped didn’t adjust to related healthcare requirements. The Excessive Courtroom dominated the Medpro did not show whether or not or not its surgical robes, which have been for use by NHS employees, had undergone a validated sterilsation course of.The agency gained its first authorities contract by a so-called VIP lane in 2020 after being really useful by Baroness Mone.