A few that has made almost £ 2 billion of the sale of Covid PPE, despite the most of it never used, does not have to provide evidence of the government's investigation.
Former nurse Sarah, 51, and husband Richard Stoute, 54, won a contract to provide NHS hospitals with protective dresses and masks to frontlining personnel fighting the pandemie.
But when it ended, it was established that £ 1.4 billion in personal protective equipment (PPE) their business support for health care was, unused and destroyed.
Despite part of the £ 200 million COVID research that studied the £ 12 billion in public money that has been awarded to companies, the stooutes will not be called to testify. The investigation can force witnesses to provide evidence.
Samuel Akinsanya, whose mother Esther was a NHS nurse and died of Covid in April 2020, the sun told on Sunday that he was 'deeply shocked'.
He added: 'The stoutes have concluded lucrative government contracts for PPE, often without the right control or competing processes.
“The granting of these contracts by the government led to considerable financial waste and endangered the safety of frontline employees such as my mother.”
A spokesperson for the investigation said that it does not require evidence from individual companies about PPE orders to thoroughly investigate this issue. The focus is on how the government responded to offers from suppliers. '
Former nurse Sarah (photo), 51, and husband Richard Stoute, 54, won a contract to provide NHS hospitals with protective coats and masks to frontlin personnel fighting the pandemie.
Samuel Akinsanya, whose mother Esther was a NHS nurse and died of Covid in April 2020, said he was “deeply shocked.”
When the couple ended, it was established that £ 1.4 billion in personal protective equipment (PPE) their business support for health care was, unused and destroyed. Displayed: Thousands of boxes PPE dumped next to a nature reserve in Hampshire in 2023
After the pandemic broke out at the beginning of 2020, NHS employees at the front line of the disease desperately needed PPE.
The then conservative government ordered more than 30 billion PPE articles from private companies in the course of the Pandemie – and the company of the Stoutes was by far the largest supplier.
The value of items that the government ordered from them, via an existing deal that the company had closed with the NHS, came to £ 1.8 billion – but about £ 1.4 billion that was written off or destroyed.
The company said it had fully delivered the contractor PPE, according to the required regulatory standards, and for schedule – and every unused kit was the result of government decisions.
Some have suggested that the full support of the pair of Healthcare Limited was paid, double the rates of other private companies that have been contracted by the government to deliver PPE. None of these contracts was delivered.
The stoutes claimed that at the end of 2019 they had a 'tip' about Covid who spread from China, giving them time to get huge PPE stocks together to meet the demand when the time came.
Mrs Stoute said earlier: “So we were able to deliver as timely as possible and this undoubtedly rescued life.”
Since the beating of their most important pandemic deal, the couple has bought a huge £ 30 million pillow in the Caribbean, a vast £ 6 million, a £ 1 million super yacht, a equestrian center and a Bentley car.
The then conservative government ordered more than 30 billion PPE articles from private companies in the course of the Pandemie – and the company of the Stoutes was by far the largest supplier. Shown: file photo
The value of items that the government ordered from them, via an existing deal that the company had closed with the NHS, came to £ 1.8 billion – but about £ 1.4 billion that was written off or destroyed. Shown: discarded PPE boxes near a Hampshire Nature Reserve in 2023
When the mail unveiled their Caribbean purchase in February 2022, the few heavy lawyers hired, including a KC to threaten an order to prevent details being revealed.
A source near the couple said that they 'spend it as Euromillions Jackpot winners'.
When Covid broke out, they moved their company – set up by Mrs. Stoute in 2001, with Mr Stoute became director in 2004 – off -shore to the Kanaal island of Jersey, known as a tax haven.
Before the pandemic, their family business made a profit of less than £ 1 million a year.
The COVID research, founded to investigate how the UK responded to the pandemic and the impact it had on the land, was launched in June 2022.
The series of public hearings, which are proof of officials, health experts and politicians about the pandemic, started a year later, in June 2023, it can force witnesses to provide evidence.
The investigation will not find anyone innocent or guilty, but instead publishes findings and recommendations for the government that it does not have to accept.
It is founded and funded by the government, but led by an independent chairman, former judge of the Baroness Heather Hallett Court of Appeal.
The COVID investigation is being founded and funded by the government, but led by an independent chairman, former judge of the Heather Hallett Court of Appeal (photo)
Four weeks of hearings started on 3 March to investigate how about £ 48 billion in COVID -related medical equipment – including PPE, the test and trace program, hospital supplies and vaccines – was contracted, purchased and distributed. Shown: file photo
Last month it was announced that evidence about the millions of PPE contracts awarded to a company with links to Baroness Michelle Mone (depicted) in private will be heard in this phase of the COVID study
Four weeks of hearings started on 3 March to investigate how about £ 48 billion in COVID – related medical equipment – including PPE, the test and trace program, hospital supplies and vaccines – was contracted, purchased and distributed.
A focus of this fifth part of the investigation will be the so -called 'VIP Lane', officially known as the Lane with high priority, for granting government contracts.
The policy was introduced in April 2020 to give priority to offers to deliver PPE if they were recommended by ministers, members of parliament, colleagues or other senior officials.
But it led to claims that companies with links to the then-conservative government could secure large deals without being completely examined.
Last month it was announced that evidence about the millions of PPE contracts assigned to a company with links to Baroness Michelle Mone Privé will be heard during this phase of the COVID study.
The Tory Peer and Lingerie entrepreneur, 52, and her husband Doug Barrowman, 59, have had to deal with controversy about the so-called 'VIP Lane' contracts.
PPE Medpro, a consortium led by Mr Barrowman, received government contracts worth more than £ 200 million to deliver personal protective equipment after Lady Mone had recommended it to the ministers.
In May 2021, the National Crime Agency (NCA) investigated PPE Medpro for the purchasing process on suspected criminal offenses.
A report will be written about this latest series of research sessions, making recommendations to the government based on its findings and will probably be published next year.
