Dave Cameron's Baroness Michelle Mone
High Court orders PPE Medpro to repay £122 million to government for breaching contract to supply surgical gowns during pandemic
Who is Michelle Mone? Firm linked to Baroness at heart of Covid PPE contract dispute
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/michelle-mone-ppe-covid-ppe-medpro-b2837308.html
A company linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone has been ordered to repay almost £122 million to the government for breaching a contract to supply surgical gowns during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) sued PPE Medpro at the High Court over allegations that it breached a deal for the 25 million gowns because the items were “faulty” by not being sterile.
UK government urged to strip Michelle Mone of peerage
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The protective equipment PPE Medpro was contracted to supply has been in storage since 2020 after the company failed to prove it was correctly sterilised.
Mone - who recommended the company to the government through the "VIP lane" - initially denied being linked to the firm, but admitted to the BBC in 2023 that she had lied about not being involved.
While a life peerage cannot be relinquished, Mone could choose to resign from being a member of the House of Lords.