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Tory Links to Private Health Care firms. All info is in the public domain. This is only what we know about so may not be complete. A 🧵/1
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Steve Brine serves as a “strategic advisor” for Sigma who won a lateral flow contract in April 2021 worth £100k. He is paid £20k a year for 8 hours a week. He is MP for Winchester and chair of the Health & Social Care Committee /2

Ranil Jayawardena had his office space paid for by Serco for £19k in 2021 they were one of two firms behind the failed £37billion “test and trace” saga. He is MP for NE Hampshire /3

Iain Duncan Smith earns £20k a year as a member of the International Advisory Board for Tunstall Health Group, he also earns £25k a year from Byotrol Technology Ltd who provides the NHS with Hand sanitiser. He is MP for Chingford and Woodford Green /4

Priti Patel has personal links with a consultant for Pharmaceuticals Direct Ltd who were given contracts in 2020 totalling £131.4mill. She is MP for Witham /5

Stephen Hammond is a Non Executive Director of OptiBiotix Health Plc he earns £25k a year in this role. He is MP for Wimbledon /6

Sajid Javid earns £152k a year as an advisor to and holds shares in Californian company c3ai. He is said to be in the process of selling his shares. He is MP for Bromsgrove /7

Paul Scully received a £1000 hospitality ticket to a cricket match at lords from Doctor Care Anywhere. He is MP for Sutton & Cheam /8

Tory Peer Lord John Nash who has donated more than £237k to the party is the ex-chairman of and a shareholder of Care UK /9

Tory Peer Stuart Rose is on the advisory board of Bridgepoint a private equity firm that owns Practice Plus /10

Jonathan Djangoly serves as a chairman of Pembroke VCT. He is MP for Huntingdon /11

Richard Fuller is an advisory director for Investcorp who has invested in Cambio Healthcare. He is MP for NE Bedfordshire /12

Bill Wiggin is a non-executive director for AllPay Ltd which has a contract with the NHS to facilitate card top up payments for Healthy Start. He is MP for N Herefordshire /13

Jeremy Hunt was paid £4k and £10k for speaking engagements for Octopus Ventures and Penn Medicines Ltd. He also received a £20k donation from the owner of Genix Healthcare. He is MP for SW Surrey. /14

Penny Mordaunt was paid £6900 for speaking to the Boston Consulting Group who charged £10mil for assisting the gov’s “test and trace” scheme. She is MP for Portsmouth North /15

Andrew Mitchell received £30k a year from 2017-2020 from UK Global Health Care to serve as a senior advisor. He is MP for Sutton Coldfield /16

John Redwood had a £5k/yr contract advising EPIC Private Equity ,which owns equity in the delivery service Pharmacy2U. He is MP for Berkshire & Wokingham /17

Matt Hancock received a £10k donation for his failed leadership campaign from Wol Kolade head of a company who owns Vanguard Healthcare who have donated £360k to the party since 2019. He is MP for W Suffolk. /18

Dominic Raab’s 2019 GE campaign received donations from Dominic Burke, whose Marsh & Mclennan subsidiaries provide healthcare insurance reports for private providers including AXA, Bupa, and Vitality Health. He is MP for Esher & Walton /19

Tory Peer Lord Michal Farmer, who has donated more than £6.5mill to the Tories since 2010 is a shareholder of Cetene which runs Operose Health. One of 67 suppliers awarded a place on a gov contract worth £10bill in order to increase NHS capacity. /20

Sources: bylinetimes.com/2021/11/12/the…
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
everydoctor.org.uk/blog/private-h… /21