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Oral Answers to Questions

Neil Gray Excerpts
Thursday 16th July 2020

(4 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Neil Gray Portrait Neil  Gray  (Airdrie and Shotts) (SNP) [V]
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Why did the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster allow a political messaging contract worth over £800,000 to be awarded without competitive tender to the company run by his former political director of communications on 3 March, therefore before any emergency covid legislation was actually enacted?

Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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It is difficult to know where to begin in that concatenation of invention, innuendo and mistake. I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman has completely the wrong end of the stick.