The Good Law Project has been doing excellent work on this Tory Covid crisis scandal. Here are the headlines from the latest update on the illegal ‘VIP lane’ procurement route that was exclusively for friends and colleagues of Tory MPs:

Fast-track contracts handed out to Tory connections were 80% more expensive than other suppliers.

Doesn’t this mean that the government could have bought nearly twice as many supplies – and, from reputable providers, they might have been useful – if it had awarded contracts in a manner that wasn’t corrupt?

Some contracts were agreed at more than four times the average unit price.

This Writer would like to know who was awarded these contracts and what there connection to Tory MPs or government ministers might have been.

And a quarter of the money awarded through the VIP lane was wasted on equipment that couldn’t be used. Last year, Spotlight on Corruption revealed that VIP firms supplied £1bn worth of PPE that was not fit for purpose, amounting to 26% of the money spent in this way.

We knew about this already. But was has been done to recoup that lost cash? Nothing?

Here’s a good bit:

The Department of Health and Social Care did not contest any of Good Law Project’s figures but said the ”priority throughout the pandemic was to save lives” adding that the department “acted swiftly to procure PPE at the height of the pandemic, competing in an overheated global market where demand massively outstripped supply. Due diligence was carried out on all companies and every company was subjected to the same checks.”

If due diligence was indeed carried out, and £1bn worth of contracts were still awarded to firms that could not fulfil them to the required standard, then it seems to me that multiple sackings for incompetence should have taken place in that department.

Who’s with me?

Source: VIP Lane contracts inflated by £925m – Good Law Project

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