BREAKING: new Covid19 contract lands today - £14.4m for PPE back with company CH & L. The director is Hon Frances Stanley, friend of Matt Hancock, whose husband donated £5,000 directly to the Health Secretary.
https://find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/002630-2021
The Contract, for supply of PPE for Healthcare Workers was issued on the 30 April 2020, so has taken 285 days to be published. Stanley was reported in 2016 as a Newmarket Racecourses committee and at a race with the MP for West Suffolk.
https://www.skysports.com/racing/news/12040/10326840/town-plate-begins-2016-july-meeting-at-newmarket?keepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=650&width=850&caption=SkySports+%7C+News
Frances’ husband Peter gave £5,000 in 2019 directly to the Health Secretary as a donation.
This contract was legal, and the donation above board, so the fault does not lie with the company. The Stanleys did nothing legally wrong.

Though a donor profiting from a govt contract in a pandemic that was to kill 100,000 is an ethical debate in itself…
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