More Tory Corruption

HarryVegas

HarryVegas

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Good Law Project is now able to reveal the names of six more companies awarded PPE contracts through the controversial ’VIP’ fast-track lane for associates of ministers and advisers. These six firms landed nearly half a billion pounds of public contracts - all without competition - and were uncovered in documents prised from Government in the course of our litigation:
  • Uniserve Limited is a logistics firm controlled by Iain Liddell. Prior to the pandemic the firm had no experience in supplying PPE, yet the firm landed a staggering £300m+ in PPE contracts from the DHSC and an eye watering £572m deal to provide freight services for the supply of PPE. The company shares the same address as Cabinet Minister Julia Lopez MP and is based in her constituency. Here they are together.
  • Draeger Safety UK Ltd which is a subsidiary of the Germany-based Draeger AG, landed a direct award contract in July 2020 to supply FFP3 masks valued at £87m.
  • Urathon Europe Limited, a Wiltshire based supplier of wheelchair accessories, was handed two contracts worth £74m to supply face masks. Correspondence released during our recent PPE hearing revealed the Urathon contracts were ‘escalated through VIP Channel’.
  • First Aid For Sport Limited, SanaClis, and Global United Trading and Sourcing PTE Ltd were awarded contracts from the DHSC worth a combined total of £28.6m.
The six companies revealed here are in addition to the six other ‘VIPs’ previously revealed by Good Law Project. In April we revealed documents showing P14 Medical, Luxe Lifestyle, and Meller Designs were fast-tracked down the ‘VIP’ route alongside Pestfix and Ayanda. P14 Medical, run by a Tory donor and ex-Tory councillor, was awarded £276m in PPE contracts. Meller Designs, run by another large Tory donor, David Meller, won more than £160m of PPE contracts. Luxe Lifestyle, a tiny recently-formed company with no staff and no experience in buying and selling PPE, was awarded a contract worth £26m after being referred to the VIP lane by an MP.

This followed our scoop last December that Government had handed PPE Medpro, a firm linked to an associate of a Conservative peer with mystery investors, £200m of PPE contracts via the 'high-priority lane.'

It’s been months of battle to get here. Why is Government so determined to keep the names of VIPs hidden? At whose request did they get ushered through the VIP lane? Documents revealed during our High Court hearing last month show civil servants were “drowning” in referrals from politically connected individuals, which were “consuming bandwidth to progressing viable opportunities”.

The NAO says 47 companies received PPE contracts after being referred to the VIP lane. Our investigations and cases have so far revealed the names of 12 of those companies.
 
Draeger Safety UK's core business is breathing apparatus and industrial breathing equipment for hazardous environments, so not a massive leap to engage them in the supply of FFP3 masks
 
HarryVegas said:
Good Law Project is now able to reveal the names of six more companies awarded PPE contracts through the controversial ’VIP’ fast-track lane for associates of ministers and advisers. These six firms landed nearly half a billion pounds of public contracts - all without competition - and were uncovered in documents prised from Government in the course of our litigation:
  • Uniserve Limited is a logistics firm controlled by Iain Liddell. Prior to the pandemic the firm had no experience in supplying PPE, yet the firm landed a staggering £300m+ in PPE contracts from the DHSC and an eye watering £572m deal to provide freight services for the supply of PPE. The company shares the same address as Cabinet Minister Julia Lopez MP and is based in her constituency. Here they are together.
  • Draeger Safety UK Ltd which is a subsidiary of the Germany-based Draeger AG, landed a direct award contract in July 2020 to supply FFP3 masks valued at £87m.
  • Urathon Europe Limited, a Wiltshire based supplier of wheelchair accessories, was handed two contracts worth £74m to supply face masks. Correspondence released during our recent PPE hearing revealed the Urathon contracts were ‘escalated through VIP Channel’.
  • First Aid For Sport Limited, SanaClis, and Global United Trading and Sourcing PTE Ltd were awarded contracts from the DHSC worth a combined total of £28.6m.
The six companies revealed here are in addition to the six other ‘VIPs’ previously revealed by Good Law Project. In April we revealed documents showing P14 Medical, Luxe Lifestyle, and Meller Designs were fast-tracked down the ‘VIP’ route alongside Pestfix and Ayanda. P14 Medical, run by a Tory donor and ex-Tory councillor, was awarded £276m in PPE contracts. Meller Designs, run by another large Tory donor, David Meller, won more than £160m of PPE contracts. Luxe Lifestyle, a tiny recently-formed company with no staff and no experience in buying and selling PPE, was awarded a contract worth £26m after being referred to the VIP lane by an MP.

This followed our scoop last December that Government had handed PPE Medpro, a firm linked to an associate of a Conservative peer with mystery investors, £200m of PPE contracts via the 'high-priority lane.'

It’s been months of battle to get here. Why is Government so determined to keep the names of VIPs hidden? At whose request did they get ushered through the VIP lane? Documents revealed during our High Court hearing last month show civil servants were “drowning” in referrals from politically connected individuals, which were “consuming bandwidth to progressing viable opportunities”.

The NAO says 47 companies received PPE contracts after being referred to the VIP lane. Our investigations and cases have so far revealed the names of 12 of those companies.
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The only thing worse than all this awful corruption is the apathetic way in which most people accept it, shrugging their shoulders and almost expecting it.

The more you read, the more you can't quite believe what's gone on. Those at the top must have balls the size of space hoppers to just brazenly crack on.
 
red_harrington said:
There are many voters out there who see this as a good thing ie Tory MPs using their 'connections' to procure PPE ahead of other countries
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That might well be the case.
However, that wouldnt change the fact that this is just rampant nepotism and corruption - throughout.

As a Social Care Provider, to deliver a single hour of Social Care in the UK, you need to register with the Regulator (CQC / or the Care Inspectorate in Scotland/Wales) - this takes a minimum of 3 months and costs thousands of pounds. You have to go through the various fit and proper person checks, have Employers/PL Insurance in place, a premises that has been inspected, and a Desktop review by the Regulator. Thats before you even open the door, and carry out a single interview, let alone look after anyone.

But by having a mate who is well connected, you can happily trouser tens of millions of pounds with no checks at all - and sell your wares to those Social Care Providers who have jumped through every hoop imaginable.

Its bent. Everyone knows its bent.
 
Chris_Boro said:
Wait...what?

"The company shares the same address as Cabinet Minister Julia Lopez MP and is based in her constituency."
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There are a large number of companies carrying the name Uniserve in Upminster Essex with the postcode RM14 1AL. A swift glance on google maps with that postcode shows what appears to be a VERY large private house..
Julia Lopez is MP for Hornchurch and Upminster.
I think we should be told ..... or perhaps we just have been.

But nothing to see here.
 
CheshireBoro said:
That might well be the case.
However, that wouldnt change the fact that this is just rampant nepotism and corruption - throughout.
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I agree, but so long as the nepotism and corruption is to our benefit ie we get the PPE we need so urgently - then who cares?

That's their thinking (and I am not saying I agree with it)
 
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