Good Law Project.
Today we can reveal – after a six month freedom of information battle with the Cabinet Office – that Michael Gove greased the wheels of Unispace’s £679m PPE deals. Details of how they were able to secure a place on the unlawful fast-track scheme have been hidden – until now.
At least £3.67m worth of PPE supplied by Unispace was unusable in an NHS setting.
A new material that packs deadly heat for viruses on its outer surface while staying cool on the reverse side could transform the way we make and use personal protective equipment (PPE). Here's more from phys.org: https://flip.it/BvP5t9 #Science#Health#PPE
How do we know there is a problem in public procurement in the UK?
well, as the HoC Public Accounts comm. points out:
One third of contracts awarded (mourned £100bn worth) were not subject to competition - just one bidder;
Framework agreements while speeding up procurement also help establish an inner group of 'preferred suppliers' who know the game of public procurement.
As the #corruption revealed around Covid #PPE procurement revealed these sort of arrangements breed profiteering.
Why do they even bother when it's so easily proven to be a lie?
Oliver Dowden on Michelle Mone: "Every single piece of PPE procurement went through a proper due diligence process".
Perhaps most clearly this is a Q. for the legal system that has facilitated & aided Mone in her attempts to avoid scrutiny of he profiteering from #Covid, while getting in the way of Bates seeking (and now starting to gain) justice.
“The suggestion that somehow ministers were seeking to deliberately do favours for or line the pockets of other individuals is totally unjustified because the decisions were only taken after a proper coherent and fair procurement process.”
How did suppliers get into the VIP Fast Lane to be considered?
What was the success rate of those in the VIP Fast Lane compared to others?
This new system will begin to be rolled out in 2025.
Hopefully, the Tories will be dead by then but ...
The DWP is to begin continuous surveillance of the bank accounts of all pension credit, universal credit and employment and support allowance claimants using powers under a bill currently going through Parliament. The department has said it intends to use its new power to force any third party to pass on data to them.
And we thought the Michelle Moanalot scandal was bad enough.
£680 million!
Old Govey seems to have had a bit of a thing for putting cronies into the VIP lane. Wonder what it was worth to him? Not that I would ever suggest there was any such impropriety. Oh no…
Tens of Billions in Government and Council Pandemic Spending Unaccounted For as Local Authority Auditing Scandal Worsens – Byline Times #ppe#corruption#fraud
Thousands of frontline workers may have died unnecessarily from covid due to federal governments failure to provide PPE according to New study. Majority were low wage, black. Hispanic or immigrant workers
Billions lost to fraud and error during UK's pandemic spending spree - https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/09/nao_pandemic_fraud_data/ if £59 billion can just be written off, why on earth is Starmer worried about spending £28 billion on important green projects? makes no sense... #PPE
Eyeballed what the contractors are doing today and the not-wearing-PPE apparently causes massive postnasal drip. (pro tip: if a substance causes massive respiratory symptoms, generally you should be wearing PPE and there's not enough ventilation).