A company linked to Baroness Michelle Mone has failed to meet a deadline to repay almost £122 million to the Government after it was found to have breached a contract for surgical gowns during the coronavirus pandemic, the health secretary has said.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) successfully sued PPE Medpro, a consortium led by Lady Mone’s husband Doug Barrowman, earlier this year.

They claimed that it had breached the deal for the 25 million gowns as they were “faulty” due to not being sterile.

In a ruling earlier this month, Mrs Justice Cockerill found that the gowns “were not, contractually speaking, sterile, or properly validated as being sterile”, which meant they could not be used in the NHS.

She ordered them to pay back £121,999,219.20 and interest by 4pm on We

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