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April 30th 2021 Cottage diary day 409

Covid UK  deaths 144,957  + 15 today

 

This isn’t on the news anywhere so its here:

Good Law Project today reveals names of 4 more companies awarded contracts through VIP lane: Clandeboye Agencies, P14 Medical, Luxe Lifestyle and Meller Designs.

P14 Medical, run by a Tory councillor and donor, awarded £276m in PPE contracts.

Meller Designs, run by David Meller a large Tory donor and trustee of Policy Exchange, was given more than £160m in PPE contracts. 

Luxe Lifestyle was awarded a £26m contract despite appearing to be insolvent and without any employees. 

And Clandeboye Agencies whose registered trade on Companies House is “wholesale of sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery” was awarded £108m in PPE contracts.

These are in addition to

*Ayanda, with a £252m deal negotiated by Liz Truss’s adviser Andrew Mills.

And Pestfix which won £350m in contracts despite being a company “which specialises in pest control products, and it was dormant in 2018”

A further 41 firms yet to be revealed. Watch this space.

 

Good Law Project also reveal that of the 9 contracts (the subject of the judicial review) – one with Ayanda, two with Clandeboye and six with Pestfix – six of them have failed in the sense that some, or all, of the PPE provided was unfit for purpose.

 

And this picture of Carrie Antoinette (sorry don’t know who to attribute it to) is the best