PPE Medpro, a company linked to Conservative peer Michelle Mone, must repay the UK Government more than £121m for breaching a contract to supply 25 million surgical gowns during the coronavirus pandemic, a High Court judge has ruled.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) sued PPE Medpro over allegations that it breached a deal for the gowns as the items were “faulty” by not being sterile.

Lawyers for the government told a trial earlier this year that it was entitled to recover the £121m cost of the contract, as well as the costs of transporting and storing the items, which amount to an additional £8.64m.

The company, a consortium led by Baroness Mone’s husband, businessman Doug Barrowman, was awarded government contracts by the former Conservative administration to supply pers

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