NEW - THE VIP FILES Part One 🔍🗄️📂 I'm working with @goodlawproject on never before seen data about the VIP PPE Lane. #TheVIPFiles today... 🔹 £3.8 billion contracts for Tory associates and donors for just PPE through the VIP Lane and the govt went further 🔹It turns out the Government massively overpaid on stock through the VIP Lane too....by at least £925 MILLION. 🔹On average the cost per item of PPE through the VIP LANE was 80% MORE than through the USUAL NHS supplier channels. 🔹Sometimes it was much higher. 🔹For instance, the price of a protective gown through standard suppliers at that time was £5.87. 🔹Through the VIP Lane, Meller Designs Ltd was paid more than twice the price at £12.64 per gown. 🔹The company made unprecedented profit that year. 🔹David Meller (of Meller Designs) an associate of Michael Gove, has donated almost £70,000 to the Conservative party since 2009. 🔹More than a quarter of the VIP Lane stock WAS UNUSABLE. 🔹Another company based offshore in a tax haven received an enormous contract and yet £145 million of their stock was useless. The referral for that company to the VIP LANE came from a Tory adviser to Liz Truss. 🔹All these contracts were given preferential treatment even tho most had no previous experience in PPE. 🔹A company was 10 times more likely to get OUR money through the VIP Lane than through being a usual NHS PPE supplier. @RachelReevesMP has committed to appointing a Covid Corruption Commissioner if Labour wins the next election. We'll be passing our discoveries to her. Follow us as we open up THE VIP FILES 🔎🗄️📂
