Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 24
Sixty-Sixth Report - PPE Medpro: awarding of contracts during the pandemic
Published 18 Jul 2023
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
The recurring themes from the Department’s approach to procurement over recent years have been inadequate financial controls, governance, documentation, and transparency, and poor management of due diligence and conflict of interests. We have already made many recommendations to government on how it can improve these areas as well as the detection and pursuit of fraud, technical expertise in procurement and the role of regulation. 15 Gov.uk, Findings of the Boardman review into pandemic procurement (at 16.06.2023) 16 National Audit Office, Investigation into the management of PPE contracts, March 2022 17 Public Accounts Committee, Department of Health and Social Care 2021–22 Annual Report and Accounts, July 2023 18 Public Accounts Committee, Department of Health and Social Care 2020–21 Annual Report and Accounts, June 2022 19 Public Accounts Committee, Department of Health and Social Care 2021–22 Annual Report and Accounts, June 2022, National Audit Office, investigation into the management of PPE contracts PPE Medpro: awarding of contracts during the pandemic 9
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.