The UK Government is unlikely to see most of the £148m is it owed by a faulty PPE supplier linked to Baroness Michelle Mone after the company was wound up.
PPE Medpro, a consortium run by Mone’s husband Douglas Barrowman, was placed into liquidation at the Insolvency and Companies Court on Thursday.
It follows a High Court ruling in October, which found that the firm breached a contract to supply 25 million surgical gowns during the Covid pandemic.
PPE Medpro filed for administration in September, a day before the order to pay. HM Revenue & Customs is separately owed £39m in tax.
Records filed by PPE Medpro’s…