Deputy PM defends Government's handling of PPE contracts
Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden has defended the Government's handling of PPE contracts during the pandemic, and says a criminal investigation and a civil litigation are underway into the agreement linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone. Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 What we were planning against was what we call the reasonable worst case scenario.
00:04 And if you remember when COVID struck, the constant demand was for us to get more PPE.
00:10 We ordered to that reasonable worst case scenario.
00:12 Thank goodness that reasonable worst case scenario didn't transpire.
00:15 But I think that was an appropriate decision.
00:17 I think your viewers will appreciate it was right to do it that way round.
00:20 There are two investigations going on to this.
00:22 The National Crime Agency, a criminal investigation,
00:25 and the Department of Health is commencing civil litigation in respect of this.
00:29 it's right that we get to the bottom of what happened and recover any funds as appropriate.