A scandalous report, published today, found multiple failures in the UK government's handling of controversial COVID testing contracts worth almost £800 million.
, published today concluded that multiple failures in the Government's handling of controversial contracts worth almost £800 million with testing company Randox Laboratories Ltd. during the pandemic made it "impossible to have confidence that all its contracts with Randox were awarded properly".
Contacts between Mr Paterson and Matt Hancock, then Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whilst Mr Paterson was being paid by RandoxThe company’s donations to the Conservative partyof Mr Paterson's lobbying on behalf of Randox, from which he reportedly received £100,000 a year, ultimately resulted in the former cabinet minister being forced to resign from parliament in November 2021, despite initially support from then Prime Minister Boris Johnson – a 'misstep' that...
"Add to that the failure to include any performance measures in the first contract, or any protection against excess profits, and this looks just like the rushed policy and contract-making that we've seen across so much of the Government's response to the pandemic. We repeatedly hear the reference to the crisis we were facing as a nation. But acting fast doesn't mean acting fast and loose.