Prioritising firms recommended by MPs and peers wasted taxpayers' money, deputy leader Angela Rayner says.
The idea of the so-called VIP lane was to treat offers of personal protective equipment with greater urgency if they came from a supplier recommended by ministers, government officials or MPs and peers from any party.
"The government had to do everything it could to persuade manufacturers to shift their production," he told BBC Breakfast. Between May and June 2020, PPE Medpro was awarded two government contracts worth £203m to supply masks and medical gowns.In December 2020, BBC NewsPPE Medpro said at the time that it had delivered 100% of the contract to the terms specified and that it had supplied equipment "fully in accordance with the agreed contract, which included clear terms as to technical specification and performance criteria of the products".
However, the commissioner says he is unable to finalise or publish his report because "the matter is under investigation by the police or another agency of a criminal investigation".Emails released under Freedom of Information laws show Baroness Mone referring the company to a government minister during the pandemic.
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