HMRC probes Tim Horlick’s Ayanda Capital over pandemic-era taxes

Tim Horlick’s Ayanda Capital is being investigated by the UK tax authority to determine whether it paid the taxes due on ...

PPE Medpro owes taxman £39m as Baroness Mone-linked company goes into administration

PPE Medpro owes HMRC £39m on top of the £148m in damages, costs and interests, owed to the Department of Health after the ...
Jurist

UK peer admits she stands to benefit from government contract for PPE equipment made during Covid pandemic

UK Baroness Michelle Mone, a Scottish businesswoman and a Conservative Party-appointed life peer who later left the party, admitted in an interview with the BBC published on Sunday that she stands to ...
Business Insider

The UK government is being sued for awarding a pest-control company with 16 employees a $135 million PPE contract

The UK government is being sued for awarding a company with just 16 employees a £108 million ($135 million contract) to supply it with personal protective equipment (PPE) at the height of its ...
Yahoo News UK

Trial date set as government takes Mone-linked Covid PPE provider to High Court

A trial between the Government and PPE Medpro over the supply of personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic is due to start at the High Court in June, lawyers have said. The ...
Huffington Post UK

Exclusive: Government Won’t Say If £1bn Of PPE Ever Reached The NHS

The government won’t say whether £1.1bn of personal protective equipment (PPE) it bought to help battle Covid-19 ever reached the NHS, reigniting fury over the chaotic handling of supplies. The ...
World Socialist Web Site

UK government spent billions on substandard PPE, as private sector made a killing

Britain’s Conservative government wasted billions of pounds buying Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) that was not fit for purpose. The amount wasted—almost £9 billion—could easily have provided over ...
Medscape

Government Plan to Burn £4bn of PPE 'Costly to Environment and Treasury'

Government plans to burn £4 billion of unusable personal protective equipment (PPE) to generate power have been criticised by MPs as potentially costly – both financially and to the environment. The ...
World Socialist Web Site

UK government covers up PPE shortages leading to health care worker deaths

Inquests into the deaths of National Health Service (NHS) workers from COVID-19 will be barred from addressing government failures in providing adequate personal protective equipment (PPE). Mark ...
Reuters

UK government broke the law by failing to disclose PPE contracts, court rules

LONDON (Reuters) - The British government broke the law by failing to publish details of billions of pounds of spending on personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic, a London court ...
Reuters

UK government broke the law by failing to disclose PPE contracts, court rules

LONDON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - The British government broke the law by failing to publish details of billions of pounds of spending on personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic, a ...