Clipper Logistics – whose boss, Steven Parkin, has donated over £700,000 to the Party’s coffers – was previously awarded a contract worth at least £11 million to distribute PPE, without having to see off any competition.
This latest revelation – buried in thousands of procurement contracts published by the Government in line with its transparency obligations- shines the spotlight on how the Government’s cronies are profiting from both ends of the PPE scandal.
The Government is still spending around £2 million a week to store over 13 billion items of PPE which went unused as they did not meet NHS standards.
Ministers are now dishing out multi-million pound contracts to companies to dispose of mountains of gloves, gowns and kit deemed unfit for purpose, but originally bought at sky-high prices brokered via middlemen, often with little or no due diligence checks.
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