// Randox would not long after win £500m of government work for the NHS’s Covid test and trace programme. The company had already been favoured with a visit to its labs in Northern Ireland by the then health secretary, Matt Hancock, in 2019. //
// Paterson had attended a meeting between Randox and a health minister in charge of Covid procurement in April 2020. The Department of Health and Social Care continues to resist a Freedom of Information request for documents relating to that meeting. //
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/05/lobbying-for-naked-bacon-how-the-owen-paterson-scandal-began
That is £500Million of taxpayers money. We already know Hancock dished out large covid contracts to companies friendly to the Conservatives, including his pub landlord who got a £30Million contract despite having no experience of PPE.
Surely this situation deserves greater inspection and we need to know how Randox came to be awarded a £500Million contract from the Government.