Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 18
Sixty-Sixth Report - PPE Medpro: awarding of contracts during the pandemic
Published 18 Jul 2023
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
In June 2022, over two years on from the start of the pandemic, we reported the Department’s poor track record of failure to follow public spending rules – not just in relation to the pandemic. We were by then particularly critical of the lax handling of conflicts of interest. In relation to the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2020–2021, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) qualified a regularity opinion due to insufficient evidence to show that the Department’s spending, particularly on COVID-19 procurement, was not subject to a material level of fraud.10
From: Public Accounts Committee, Sixty-Sixth Report - PPE Medpro: awarding of contracts during the pandemic (HC 1590), 18 July 2023
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 24 September 2023.