Written Question

PPE Medpro

Tuesday 13th February 2024

Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps she has taken to reclaim public funds provided to PPE MedPro.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson

The Department had been in a mediated process and protected conversations with PPE Medpro over a contested contract. The discussions did not prove fruitful, and the Department commenced the process of litigation by filing papers with the High Court on 19 December 2022. The Department cannot discuss active legal proceedings, although a Humble address covered this issue in January 2023, and notes were laid in both houses.

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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 07 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) What it shows is that we took very difficult decisions in the pandemic to speed up access to PPE for - Speech Link
2: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) On top of all the PPE waste that my hon. - Speech Link

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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Karl Turner (Lab - Kingston upon Hull East) protective equipment contracts during the pandemic, costing over £1 billion, but only one company, PPE - Speech Link

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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 19 Dec 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Samantha Dixon (Lab - City of Chester) Does the Treasury have any idea how much wasted PPE has gone up in smoke this year? - Speech Link
2: Laura Trott (Con - Sevenoaks) This was done very quickly, at pace, because we were desperate to get PPE to the frontline as quickly - Speech Link
3: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) Medpro from the very beginning. - Speech Link
4: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) We all know that Baroness Mone’s enrichment via PPE Medpro is subject to an investigation, but that does - Speech Link

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Commons Chamber
Infrastructure Procurement - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) Indeed, the overspend in capital costs of the ferries is equivalent to the money given to PPE Medpro, - Speech Link

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Select Committee

Thirty-First Report - Department of Health and Social Care 2022–23 Annual Report and Accounts

Report May. 10 2024

Committee: Public Accounts Committee

Found: The Department procured £13.6 billion of PPE to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Ashworth (LAB - Leicester South) House, and across the Labour movement as a whole.The Government lost £9 billion through duff, unusable PPE - Speech Link
2: Alex Burghart (Con - Brentwood and Ongar) The accusation that we bought too much PPE is akin to people standing up in 1945 and saying that the - Speech Link
3: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab - Torfaen) system, but the Government have failed to be transparent around the interests of Baroness Mone in the PPE - Speech Link

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Select Committee

Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Sixty-sixth report from Session 2022-23

Government Response Sep. 24 2023

Committee: Public Accounts Committee

Found: 28 Sixty -sixth report of Session 2022 -23 Department of Health and Social Care PPE Medpro: awarding

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Select Committee

Twenty-Fifth Report - Scrutiny of sound financial practice across Government

Report Apr. 15 2024

Committee: Public Accounts Committee

Found: Parliament HC 49 11th The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine programme in England HC 258 12th Management of PPE

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