Baroness Wheatcroft
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Coronavirus Grants: Fraud
Baroness Wheatcroft Excerpts(2 years, 10 months ago)
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Baroness Wheatcroft (CB)
My Lords, as we seek to claw back money misspent over Covid, can the Minister tell us whether those who benefited from fast-track VIP PPE contracts and delivered unfit goods will be paying back the money?
Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con)
On PPE, we acknowledge the severity of these claims, and the DHSC takes its responsibilities around due diligence extremely seriously. Of course, this goes back a bit further. As the DHSC has recently set out, all offers that come to the mailbox are triaged by an official from the high-priority appraisals team to be processed and responded to.