The company linked to the former Conservative peer Michelle Mone, which owes the government almost £150m for supplying unusable personal protective equipment during the pandemic, has been put into liquidation.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) applied for PPE Medpro to be wound up at a high court hearing on Thursday, arguing that the company was “hopelessly insolvent” and should not continue in administration.
Mone’s husband, the Isle of Man-based businessman Doug Barrowman, owned PPE Medpro, which was awarded two contracts to supply PPE worth £203m after Mone approached Michael Gove, the then Cabinet Office minister, in May 2020. The contracts were processed via the “VIP lane” operated by Boris Johnson’s…