Contracts worth £252m were awarded to Ayanda Capital but no details about the deal have been published. This breaches a legal obligation to do so, within 30 days, for all contracts worth over £10,000.
Ayanda Capital produced 50m masks but they were declared unsuitable for use by NHS workers. Crisp Websites, a pest-control firm, trading under the name of PestFix, secured a £32m contract from the government, but no details of the contract have been published.
Debbie, who has co-signed a pre-action letter with MPs Caroline Lucas of the Green Party and Liberal Democrat, Layla Moran, said: “The government’s failure to comply with its legal obligation to publish all contracts over £10,000 is due to either incompetence or dishonesty.
“Ministers may try to argue that the COVID-19 emergency meant they could award certain contracts without going through the competitive tender procedure, but this does not exempt them from their duty to publish the contracts, once awarded, within a 30 day period.
“It is wholly unacceptable that as an MP I cannot put the government’s decisions to award these huge contracts under scrutiny and leads me to wonder what it is they have to hide.”
