About £1.4bn worth of personal protective equipment has been destroyed or written off in what is understood to be the most wasteful government deal of the pandemic.
Before the pandemic, the company, which was already a specialist manufacturer of PPE, had 25 employees andAny profits since the contract was fulfilled are not known because in 2021 the co-directors, Sarah Stoute, 50, and her husband Richard, 53, based the business offshore in Jersey for privacy reasons.
The government previously estimated that £85m worth of PPE secured under the contract would not be used, which is approximately 6% of the true total.The BBC understands that at least £100m of public money has additionally been spent on storing and incinerating the excess stock since its purchase.'Staggering waste'
The BBC contacted the DHSC and the Conservative Party several times with no reply to set out our findings and ask a number of questions. "I think the procurement people did what many of us would have done and slightly panicked to get the stuff in, or at least get the contracts in and hope the stuff arrived later - it was almost as though price didn’t matter.
In a post on X, then known as Twitter, in October 2020 she wrote that her “team of 25 people” supplied “one fifth of the PPE national stockpile”.Afterwards, Mrs Stoute and her husband bought a £30m seafront villa in Barbados; a yacht; a £6m house in the south of England and an international equestrian centre in Bedfordshire.
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