Covid Contracts: Judicial Review

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:34 pm on 24 February 2021.

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Photo of Liz Twist Liz Twist Opposition Whip (Commons) 12:34, 24 February 2021

The Government claim that this is just a case of a few PPE contracts being published a couple of weeks late, but in fact we know that hundreds of millions of pounds-worth of contracts also went to management consultants. Will the Minister confirm whether all the contracts for which the publishing deadline was missed, from the start of the pandemic until now, were in fact for PPE, or did they also include contracts that have gone to private consultants? Will he explain why those contracts were not published on time?