Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract.
There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m...
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There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m...
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October 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract.
There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m...
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There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m...
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Baroness Michelle Mone has renewed her Leave of Absence in the Lords.
She's been on leave since December 2022 over the PPE Medpro scandal.
PPE Medpro was ordered by the High Court to repay £122m. Mone has said she has "no wish to return" as a Tory peer. Not clear why she doesn't just resign, then.
She's been on leave since December 2022 over the PPE Medpro scandal.
PPE Medpro was ordered by the High Court to repay £122m. Mone has said she has "no wish to return" as a Tory peer. Not clear why she doesn't just resign, then.
May 20, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Baroness Michelle Mone has renewed her Leave of Absence in the Lords.
She's been on leave since December 2022 over the PPE Medpro scandal.
PPE Medpro was ordered by the High Court to repay £122m. Mone has said she has "no wish to return" as a Tory peer. Not clear why she doesn't just resign, then.
She's been on leave since December 2022 over the PPE Medpro scandal.
PPE Medpro was ordered by the High Court to repay £122m. Mone has said she has "no wish to return" as a Tory peer. Not clear why she doesn't just resign, then.
Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro wound up after order to repay £148m for faulty goods.
Company has £600,000 assets. Govt is unsecured creditor, won't recover anything.
Hard to trace money in offshore bank accounts.
Govt could sue directors for fraud, will take years, what will it recover?
Company has £600,000 assets. Govt is unsecured creditor, won't recover anything.
Hard to trace money in offshore bank accounts.
Govt could sue directors for fraud, will take years, what will it recover?
Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro wound up after being ordered to repay £148m
In a ruling, Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Sebastian Prentis placed the company into liquidation
www.independent.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro wound up after order to repay £148m for faulty goods.
Company has £600,000 assets. Govt is unsecured creditor, won't recover anything.
Hard to trace money in offshore bank accounts.
Govt could sue directors for fraud, will take years, what will it recover?
Company has £600,000 assets. Govt is unsecured creditor, won't recover anything.
Hard to trace money in offshore bank accounts.
Govt could sue directors for fraud, will take years, what will it recover?
So Baroness Mone didn’t just connect PPE Medpro to the government’s VIP lane. She took an active role lobbying for the company:
October 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
So Baroness Mone didn’t just connect PPE Medpro to the government’s VIP lane. She took an active role lobbying for the company:
For the weekend - my piece on the PPE Medpro judgment.
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Why the government was right to take PPE Medpro to court
The state should enforce its contractual rights against suppliers more often
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Why the government was right to take PPE Medpro to court
The state should enforce its contractual rights against suppliers more often
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
![Mone was neither a director nor shareholder of that company but she was, from this judgment, its champion lobbyist. At a critical stage, according to the judgment, the PPE Medro negotiator “engaged his ‘big gun’ – contacting Baroness Mone who then took up the fight on behalf of Medpro direct with […] the Cabinet Office threatening further escalation.”
Mone sent an email to the Cabinet Office (which indicates the input of lawyers) insisting a contract had already somehow been entered into. She wrote “the committee sign off, the finance sign off, the verbal conversations on the urgency of goods and the signed returned contract, all constitutes a contract, with a legal and moral obligation on [the Department of Health and Social Care]”.
But this was not correct of law or fact. The matter was still entirely subject to contract. The supplier may well have been incurring costs in anticipation of a contract, but at this stage this was at their own risk. In that email, however, a parliamentarian was falsely stating to the government that a high-value contract was already in place and that the government was thereby obliged to purchase the goods. In fact, the final price had not even been determined. There had not even been a best or final offer.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nx2kxyxako6sobj4g4pdkl6s/bafkreidiodntpksjpxz6j2a7uy7v6xrxx2pjijvczgy75n3lfmu427jh4m)
October 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
For the weekend - my piece on the PPE Medpro judgment.
But there's no sign of any of that in PPE Medpro (UK)'s accounts:
October 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
But there's no sign of any of that in PPE Medpro (UK)'s accounts:
The second PPE Medpro mystery is: where is the money?
The Guardian reported (and Barrowman does not seem to contest) that PPE Medpro made a £65m profit from its sale of £202m of PPE to the Government:
The Guardian reported (and Barrowman does not seem to contest) that PPE Medpro made a £65m profit from its sale of £202m of PPE to the Government:
October 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The second PPE Medpro mystery is: where is the money?
The Guardian reported (and Barrowman does not seem to contest) that PPE Medpro made a £65m profit from its sale of £202m of PPE to the Government:
The Guardian reported (and Barrowman does not seem to contest) that PPE Medpro made a £65m profit from its sale of £202m of PPE to the Government:
Our full investigation into PPE Medpro, Smartpay Ltd and Barrowman's "shadow companies" is here: taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/03/04/b...
October 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Our full investigation into PPE Medpro, Smartpay Ltd and Barrowman's "shadow companies" is here: taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/03/04/b...
Mone and Barrowman lied. They told an enormous fib - that they didn't own PPE Medpro - and then sent lawyers to threaten journalists who were exposing the fib.
I've no idea why they think anyone will believe this new statement.
I've no idea why they think anyone will believe this new statement.
March 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Mone and Barrowman lied. They told an enormous fib - that they didn't own PPE Medpro - and then sent lawyers to threaten journalists who were exposing the fib.
I've no idea why they think anyone will believe this new statement.
I've no idea why they think anyone will believe this new statement.
Last year, Govt won a £122m judgment against Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company PPE Medpro, for supplying defective PPE
The company had been emptied of cash and collapsed
Now its liquidators are suing Barrowman, Mone and associated companies personally
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The company had been emptied of cash and collapsed
Now its liquidators are suing Barrowman, Mone and associated companies personally
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June 24, 2026 at 9:08 AM
Last year, Govt won a £122m judgment against Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company PPE Medpro, for supplying defective PPE
The company had been emptied of cash and collapsed
Now its liquidators are suing Barrowman, Mone and associated companies personally
Short 🧵
The company had been emptied of cash and collapsed
Now its liquidators are suing Barrowman, Mone and associated companies personally
Short 🧵
💰 PPE Medpro must repay £122m for supplying defective PPE
⚖️ But it doesn’t stop with Baroness Mone. When will the ministers who referred their cronies onto the VIP Lane face consequences?
https://goodlaw.social/f2e9
⚖️ But it doesn’t stop with Baroness Mone. When will the ministers who referred their cronies onto the VIP Lane face consequences?
https://goodlaw.social/f2e9
PPE Medpro must repay £122m for breach of contract | Good Law Project
The company Michelle Mone landed on the Tories’ unlawful VIP Lane has 14 days to repay £122m for gowns supplied during the pandemic and never used.
goodlaw.social
October 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
💰 PPE Medpro must repay £122m for supplying defective PPE
⚖️ But it doesn’t stop with Baroness Mone. When will the ministers who referred their cronies onto the VIP Lane face consequences?
https://goodlaw.social/f2e9
⚖️ But it doesn’t stop with Baroness Mone. When will the ministers who referred their cronies onto the VIP Lane face consequences?
https://goodlaw.social/f2e9
Rachel Reeves responds to PPE MedPro court case outcome
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October 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Rachel Reeves responds to PPE MedPro court case outcome
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PPE MedPro must repay government £120 million pounds
Huge win.
Suck it up Michelle Mone
Strip her from the Lords
Huge win.
Suck it up Michelle Mone
Strip her from the Lords
October 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
PPE MedPro must repay government £120 million pounds
Huge win.
Suck it up Michelle Mone
Strip her from the Lords
Huge win.
Suck it up Michelle Mone
Strip her from the Lords
The question is: is that what he did here? Did the Government sign a contract with PPE Medpro UK, when the cash actually went tax-free to PPE Medpro in the Isle of Man?
If not, what was the purpose of two identically named companies?
If not, what was the purpose of two identically named companies?
March 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The question is: is that what he did here? Did the Government sign a contract with PPE Medpro UK, when the cash actually went tax-free to PPE Medpro in the Isle of Man?
If not, what was the purpose of two identically named companies?
If not, what was the purpose of two identically named companies?
A spirited government would now buy the Medpro company so it could sue its former directors.
*evil grin*
*evil grin*
October 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A spirited government would now buy the Medpro company so it could sue its former directors.
*evil grin*
*evil grin*
This ruling is a joke.
PPE Medpro will go bankrupt and the Government won't get a penny.
Michelle Mone should have to pay the £122m personally.
RT if you want to see her pay it all back.
PPE Medpro will go bankrupt and the Government won't get a penny.
Michelle Mone should have to pay the £122m personally.
RT if you want to see her pay it all back.
October 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This ruling is a joke.
PPE Medpro will go bankrupt and the Government won't get a penny.
Michelle Mone should have to pay the £122m personally.
RT if you want to see her pay it all back.
PPE Medpro will go bankrupt and the Government won't get a penny.
Michelle Mone should have to pay the £122m personally.
RT if you want to see her pay it all back.
PPE MedPro was kept outside the scope of the Covid Inquiry report because of current proceedings against those involved
Michael Gove referred PPE MedPro to the high priority lane. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Michael Gove referred PPE MedPro to the high priority lane. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Private emails reveal Michael Gove’s role in Tory-linked firm’s PPE deals
Exclusive: Tory peer Michelle Mone used private email addresses to contact Gove and another cabinet minister about PPE offer
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2026 at 12:56 PM
PPE MedPro was kept outside the scope of the Covid Inquiry report because of current proceedings against those involved
Michael Gove referred PPE MedPro to the high priority lane. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Michael Gove referred PPE MedPro to the high priority lane. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
NEW: PPE Medpro, the company linked to Baroness Michelle Mone, has been wound up at a specialist companies court
PPE Medpro wound up after being ordered to pay £148m to UK Government
www.thenational.scot
December 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
NEW: PPE Medpro, the company linked to Baroness Michelle Mone, has been wound up at a specialist companies court
In news you may have missed, the case to recover £122m from Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro for COVID contracts reached the High Court yesterday.
This is a separate case to the National Crime Agency investigation into Mone and her husband, Doug Barrowman.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This is a separate case to the National Crime Agency investigation into Mone and her husband, Doug Barrowman.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
DHSC’s £122m claim against Michelle Mone-linked company reaches high court
Government is seeking to recover money paid to PPE Medpro, which was recommended to ministers by peer
www.theguardian.com
June 12, 2025 at 6:10 AM
In news you may have missed, the case to recover £122m from Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro for COVID contracts reached the High Court yesterday.
This is a separate case to the National Crime Agency investigation into Mone and her husband, Doug Barrowman.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This is a separate case to the National Crime Agency investigation into Mone and her husband, Doug Barrowman.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This is the judgment on the PPE/Medpro claim.
A cracking £122m win for the Government Legal Service
And is wonderful to see the government bringing a claim in contract against a shoddy supplier.
This does not happen often, and it should happen far more.
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
A cracking £122m win for the Government Legal Service
And is wonderful to see the government bringing a claim in contract against a shoddy supplier.
This does not happen often, and it should happen far more.
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
www.judiciary.uk
October 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
This is the judgment on the PPE/Medpro claim.
A cracking £122m win for the Government Legal Service
And is wonderful to see the government bringing a claim in contract against a shoddy supplier.
This does not happen often, and it should happen far more.
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
A cracking £122m win for the Government Legal Service
And is wonderful to see the government bringing a claim in contract against a shoddy supplier.
This does not happen often, and it should happen far more.
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
Michelle Mone's company PPE Medpro has been wound up without repaying the £122m it owes for ripping off the NHS. But luckily, she gets to keep the private jet and the superyacht.
December 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Michelle Mone's company PPE Medpro has been wound up without repaying the £122m it owes for ripping off the NHS. But luckily, she gets to keep the private jet and the superyacht.
So PPE Medpro and the corrupt baroness get away with it?
So much for the 'Covid tsar' - absolute joke
So much for the 'Covid tsar' - absolute joke
February 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
So PPE Medpro and the corrupt baroness get away with it?
So much for the 'Covid tsar' - absolute joke
So much for the 'Covid tsar' - absolute joke