Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department made an assessment of the compatibility of PPE Medpro Ltd’s bid to provide PPE with Regulation 57 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Will Quince
A due diligence assessment was conducted on PPE Medpro using company and financial information. No grounds for mandatory exclusion under Regulation 57 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 were found.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether provisions were included in public contracts with PPE Medpro Ltd in accordance with Regulation 73 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 enabling the contracting authority to terminate the contract where the contract should have been excluded from the procurement procedure.
Answered by Will Quince
The contract entered into with PPE Medpro Ltd for the supply of personal protective equipment contains termination clauses for a material breach and ‘convenience’. The ‘convenience’ clause is a break clause which allows the Department to terminate the contract for any reason.
Asked by: Lord Roberts of Llandudno (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to review the procurement process for personal protective equipment purchased during the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular the contract awarded to PPE Medpro.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Government has stated that it will review the response to procurement during the pandemic and learn lessons. PPE Medpro Ltd were awarded its contracts at the height of the pandemic in 2020. The new Procurement Bill will introduce new, transparent arrangements for how procurement should be conducted in an emergency, such as the pandemic. A new system for declaration of ‘when action is necessary to protect life’ will ensure confidence that contracts are let appropriately. These new rules will allow buyers to conduct a rapid informal competition in situations of extreme urgency.
All contracts, including those awarded in exceptional circumstances, are subject to the Department’s contract management operating standards, which include a range of governance requirements.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2022 to Question 101748 on PPE Medpro: Baroness Mone, how many suppliers of PPE to which contracts were issued through the high priority lane were rated as (a) red, (b) amber or (c) green in his Department's financial assessment.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
All offers received a rigorous financial, commercial, legal and policy assessment led by officials from various Government departments using a number of different processes to complete due diligence checks. A proportion of the assessments made included a red, amber or green rating. However, as multiple systems were used to record these checks, the information requested is not held centrally and to obtain it would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Neale Hanvey (Alba Party - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide the (a) number and (b) proportion of PPE items provided by each company identified through the High Priority Lane; and what the monetary value of each of those contracts was.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
We are unable to provide the information requested on the number and proportion of personal protective equipment (PPE) items provided by each company identified through the High Priority Lane, as it is commercially sensitive. The following table shows the monetary value for each contract for PPE processed through the high priority lane.
Supplier | Contract value |
Aiya Technology | £2,790,000.00 |
Aiya Technology | £14,600,000.00 |
Aiya Technology | £6,240,000.00 |
Aventis Solutions Ltd | £18,480,000.00 |
Ayanda Capital Ltd | £252,500,000.00 |
Blueleaf Ltd | £4,000,000.00 |
Brandology Ltd | £29,315,000.00 |
Brandology Ltd | £69,600,000.00 |
Cargo Services Far East Limited | £49,209,350.40 |
Cargo Services Far East Limited | £107,273,180.91 |
Cargo Services Far East Limited | £1,802,805.61 |
Ccs Mclays Ltd | £11,136,000.00 |
Community Pharma Company Ltd | £3,920,000.00 |
Crisp Websites Ltd Ta Pestfix | £32,436,000.00 |
Crisp Websites Ltd Ta Pestfix | £1,104,000.00 |
Crisp Websites Ltd Ta Pestfix | £30,000,000.00 |
Crisp Websites Ltd Ta Pestfix | £71,750,000.00 |
Crisp Websites Ltd Ta Pestfix | £1,628,700.00 |
Crisp Websites Ltd Ta Pestfix | £6,755,000.00 |
Crisp Websites Ltd Ta Pestfix | £139,900,000.00 |
Crisp Websites Ltd Ta Pestfix | £197,800.00 |
Crisp Websites Ltd Ta Pestfix | £454,500.00 |
Crisp Websites Ltd Ta Pestfix | £490,500.00 |
Euthenia Investments Ltd | £880,000.00 |
Excalibur Healthcare Services Ltd | £25,135,000.00 |
Eyespace Eyewear Limited | £1,412,829.18 |
Gbuk Ltd | £2,360,484.00 |
Global United Trading | £432,719.25 |
Headwind Industrial (China) Ltd | £2,500,000.00 |
Hotel Logistics Ltd | £3,667,957.14 |
Hotel Logistics Ltd | £1,025,000.00 |
Hotel Logistics Ltd | £615,000.00 |
Ideal Medical Solutions Ltd | £7,500,000.00 |
Ideal Medical Solutions Ltd | £7,500,000.00 |
Ideal Medical Solutions Ltd | £14,955,000.00 |
Ideal Medical Solutions Ltd | £6,090,000.00 |
Ideal Medical Solutions Ltd | £3,940,000.00 |
Invisio Ltd | £3,789,500.00 |
Invisio Ltd | £8,500,000.00 |
Jingdong E-Commerce | £8,497,272.65 |
Jingdong E-Commerce | £8,424,570.18 |
Kpm Marine Ltd | £960,000.00 |
Liaoning Zhongqiao Overseas Exchange Co., Ltd. | £12,779,067.68 |
Maxima Markets Limited | £1,850,000.00 |
Mayfair Global Uk Ltd | £256,000.00 |
Mds Healthcare Ltd | £150,000.00 |
Mds Healthcare Ltd | £2,350,000.00 |
Medicom Healthcare Holding | £307,620,000.00 |
Medicom Healthcare Holding | £299,906,668.00 |
Meller Design Ltd | £8,647,462.14 |
Meller Design Ltd | £1,080,000.00 |
Meller Design Ltd | £65,832,000.00 |
Meller Design Ltd | £2,610,000.00 |
Meller Design Ltd | £79,170,000.00 |
Meller Design Ltd | £5,990,601.73 |
Mgp Advisory Ltd | £825,000.00 |
Monarch Acoustics Ltd | £28,800,000.00 |
New Asia Logistic Services Pte Ltd | £17,010,000.00 |
Nine United Ltd | £48,545,750.30 |
Nine United Ltd | £13,937,752.96 |
Nkd International Limited | £135,000.00 |
P14 Medical Ltd Ta Platform 14 | £4,192,812.00 |
P14 Medical Ltd Ta Platform 14 | £116,013,156.00 |
P14 Medical Ltd Ta Platform 14 | £156,291,000.00 |
P1f Limited | £738,805.98 |
P1f Limited | £7,590,000.00 |
P1f Limited | £4,020,500.00 |
P1f Limited | £7,300,000.00 |
P1f Limited | £259,000.00 |
P1f Limited | £36,116,578.62 |
P1f Limited | £25,600,000.00 |
P1f Limited | £2,413,800.00 |
Pakan Health And Beauty Group | £1,944,000.00 |
Ppe Medpro Ltd | £80,850,000.00 |
Ppe Medpro Ltd | £122,000,000.00 |
Regal Polythene Ltd Ta Regal Disposables | £44,400.00 |
Regal Polythene Ltd Ta Regal Disposables | £1,125,000.00 |
Rehear Labs Limited | £9,750,958.96 |
Rehear Labs Limited | £13,400,000.00 |
Rehear Labs Limited | £30,740,000.00 |
Sanaclis | £11,000,000.00 |
Sanaclis | £6,000,000.00 |
Sg Recruitment Uk Ltd | £23,899,000.00 |
Sg Recruitment Uk Ltd | £16,125,000.00 |
Skinnydip Limited | £12,873,400.00 |
Summit Medical Ltd | £161,058.40 |
Technicare Ltd Ta Blyth Group | £1,725,000.00 |
The Paper Drinking Straw Company Ltd | £19,877,000.00 |
Tower Supplies | £20,250,000.00 |
Tower Supplies | £20,250,000.00 |
Uniserve Ltd | £10,000,000.00 |
Uniserve Ltd | £69,600,000.00 |
Uniserve Ltd | £13,500,000.00 |
Uniserve Ltd | £7,125,000.00 |
Uniserve Ltd | £14,400,000.00 |
Uniserve Ltd | £287,960,000.00 |
Uniserve Ltd | £86,200,000.00 |
Unispace Global Health | £239,600,000.00 |
Unispace Global Health | £113,950,000.00 |
Unispace Global Health | £103,684,000.00 |
Unispace Global Health | £161,000,000.00 |
Unispace Global Health | £47,846,500.00 |
Unispace Global Health | £3,789,590.00 |
Unispace Global Health | £9,660,000.00 |
Universal Solutions Trading Ltd | £810,000.00 |
Universal Solutions Trading Ltd | £2,700,000.00 |
Universal Solutions Trading Ltd | £4,500,000.00 |
Urathon Europe Limited | £52,480,000.00 |
Urathon Europe Limited | £22,200,000.00 |
Visage Ltd | £3,375,000.00 |
Visage Ltd | £3,000,000.00 |
Worldlink Resource | £80,100,000.00 |
Worldlink Resource | £178,200,000.00 |
Wuhan Xiaoyaoyao Pharmaceutical | £63,339,414.97 |
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer 1 February 2022 to Question 101748, on PPE Medpro: Baroness Mone, how many suppliers of PPE to whom contracts were issued outside the High Priority Lane were rated as (a) red, (b) amber and (c) green in his Department's financial assessment.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
All offers received a rigorous financial, commercial, legal and policy assessment led by officials from various Government departments using a number of different processes to complete due diligence checks. A proportion of the assessments made included a red, amber or green rating. However, as multiple systems were used to record these checks, the information requested is not held centrally and to obtain it would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2022 to Question 101748 on PPE Medpro: Baroness Mone, what the nature was of the link between Baroness Mone and PPE Medpro that was made clear prior to the award of contracts.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
We are unable to provide the information requested as it is commercially sensitive.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2022 to Question 117796, for what reason PPE Medpro was not given a red, amber or green rating in his Department's financial assessment.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The Department cannot comment on individual contracts where disclosure would be likely to prejudice commercial interests. Section 43 of the Freedom of Information Act exempts information where disclosure would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of any person.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2021 to Question 80941, on Coronavirus: Protective Clothing, whether Baroness Mone declared any connection to Medpro PPE in her communications with the Minister on 7 and 8 May 2020.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Due diligence was carried out for all contracts. All offers received a rigorous financial and technical assessment, led by Departmental officials and other Government departments. The Department researched and reported on financial details of companies and background details of company directors and produced reports rating suppliers as red, amber or green.
Departmental records reflect that a link between Baroness Mone and PPE Medpro was clear prior to contracts being awarded.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what financial checks his Department made on PPE Medpro Ltd (a) following its referral to the high priority lane and (b) prior to the award of any contract; and what interests were declared by any party in relation to that company.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Due diligence was carried out for all contracts. All offers received a rigorous financial and technical assessment, led by Departmental officials and other Government departments. The Department researched and reported on financial details of companies and background details of company directors and produced reports rating suppliers as red, amber or green.
Departmental records reflect that a link between Baroness Mone and PPE Medpro was clear prior to contracts being awarded.