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The PPE Rich List: Covid firms unmasked

Hundreds of firms were given contracts to supply medical protective gear, but much of the equipment went unused.

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Sunday December 11 2022, The Sunday Times

'Our PPE Rich List shows these businesses — including PPE Medpro — received a total of £7.4 billion in contracts but also produced more than £1 billion in PPE placed in the “do not supply” lane as of June 2021.'

At least a billion items are classified “waste — not fit for any use”.

Full Support Healthcare Ltd

PPE contracts — £2bn

Government estimate of unused PPE — £84.7m

Sarah Stoute runs Full Support with her husband. Last summer they based the company offshore in Jersey (Stoute can be a Jewsih name)

The couple ordered consignments of PPE after receiving a “tip-off” about a deadly virus

Uniserve Ltd

PPE contracts — £877m

Government estimate of unused PPE — £179m

Iain Liddell owns an estate where the MP Julia Lopez has her headquarters

The businessman Iain Liddell, 59, founder and owner of Uniserve, was one of the biggest PPE winners — despite reportedly not having a track record of supplying medical equipment.

Lopez became a Cabinet Office minister for procurement.

Unispace Global Ltd

PPE contract — £684m

Government estimate of unused PPE — £3.67m

Gareth and Charles Hales. Their father, Bruce, is a leader of the Plymouth Brethren church

Guardian Surgical/Rocialle Healthcare Ltd

PPE contracts — £445m

Government estimate of unused PPE — £63.8m

Supermax Healthcare Ltd

PPE contracts — £366m

Government estimate of unused PPE — None

PestFix Ltd

PPE contracts — £349m

Government estimate of unused PPE — £84.4m

Boss Dan England is nicknamed the “bird repeller”

Director, Joe England, 50, met the father-in-law of Steve Oldfield, the Department of Health’s chief commercial officer, at the father-in-law’s 80th birthday bash.

In March 2020, PestFix became one of the government’s biggest PPE suppliers overnight.

The problem: much of it appeared defective.

P14 Medical Ltd

PPE contracts — £276m

Government estimate of unused PPE — £184m

Steve Dechan, who runs a pain management firm, is a former Conservative councillor.

Ayanda Capital Ltd

PPE contracts — £253m

Unused PPE — £138m

Andrew Mills, 59, was a former government adviser and sat on the Board of Trade, then chaired by Liz Truss. Even if his role at the Department of International Trade was unremunerated, his role at Ayanda Capital soon paid dividends.

Mills acted as a broker on behalf of Ayanda Capital, a the family investment firm whose parent company is in Mauritius, the Indian ocean tax haven, and whose directors included Tim Horlick, a City financier.

One government official marked emails “Urgent VIP case” and “Very urgent VIP escalation”, saying that if the deal did not happen, “Andrew will escalate as high as he can possibly go!” The company won a £250 million contract for PPE which was mostly unused by the NHS.

Purple Surgical UK Ltd

PPE contracts — £238m

Government estimate of unused PPE — £35.8m

Purple Surgical, owned by Robert and Jane Sharpe of Barnet, north London, are suing their British Virgin Islands supplier Win Billion over £21 million of masks that allegedly failed to turn up.

Medline Industries Ltd

PPE contracts — £228m

Government estimate of unused PPE — £11,691

The American parent company of Medline Industries Ltd, was owned by the medical billionaire Mills family

Pennine Healthcare Ltd

PPE contracts — £212m

Government estimate of unused PPE — £3.7m

Liz Fothergill - chief executive of her family’s medical equipment firm from 1984 to 2014. Lord lieutenant of her county. Her brothers, Ian Shaw, 67, David Shaw, 62, and the chief executive, Luke Fryer, 49, are the people “of significant control”.

PPE Medpro Ltd

PPE contracts — £203m

Government estimate of unused PPE — £125m

Allegations of its ties to Baroness Mone.

Made her money selling weight loss pills, fake tan products and lingerie.

David Cameron made her a Conservative peer in 2015.

Medicare Products Ltd

PPE contracts — £192m

Government estimate of unused PPE — None

Ramfoam Ltd

PPE contracts — £149m

Government estimate of unused PPE — £108m

Ramfoam, a West Midlands firm that previously specialised in foam inserts and products, made £70 million in profits on a deal for mostly unused PPE.

Its chief executive, Philip Johnson, has paid himself a £13 million dividend

365 Healthcare Ltd (owned by the publicly listed distribution company Bunzl)

PPE contracts — £143m

Government estimate of unused PPE — None

Spirit Medical Ltd

PPE contracts — £135m

Government estimate of unused PPE — None

Owned by Justin and Deb Fellows.

Pharmaceuticals Direct Ltd

PPE contracts — £131m

Government estimate of unused PPE — None

Inivos Ltd

PPE contracts — £127m

Government estimate of unused PPE — £124m

Inivos Ltd, trading as Health Spaces.

Inivos, a hygiene company, was controlled by five members of the Fentiman family until spring 2021.

As of February 22, 2022, two Fentimans — Warrick, 37, and Nathalie, 31 — were listed as the only persons of significant control.

Warrick is described as “well respected within the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church” in a libel proceedings from 2019.