UK government fails to publish details of £4bn Covid contracts with private firms
Sumary of UK government fails to publish details of £4bn Covid contracts with private firms:
The government has failed to publish any information about £4bn of Covid-related contracts awarded to private companies, in what appears to be a continuing breach of UK law..
The gap was uncovered by campaign group the Good Law Project, which along with a cross-party group of MPs, is suing the health secretary, Matt Hancock, in the high court..
and is pushing for an independent judge-led inquiry into the billions spent on personal protective equipment, medicines and virus testing and tracing since the pandemic began..
Many of the new deals are for the purchase of rapid test kits of the kind being used in Liverpool city-wide testing effort..
The California-based company is owned by the private equity group Pasaca Capital, which was founded by a Chinese investment banker in 2017..
Good Law claim singles out a number of cases, including the award of a £252m PPE contract to a company called Ayanda Capital on 29 April….
