Government is seeking to recover money paid to PPE Medpro, which was recommended to ministers by peer
The high court will on Wednesday begin hearing the government’s multimillion-pound legal claim against the company awarded two personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts during the Covid pandemic after the Conservative peer Michelle Mone recommended it to ministers.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) sued in December 2022 for return of the £122m it paid to the company, PPE Medpro, for 25m sterile surgical gowns, which were rejected after delivery to the UK.
